Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Usage

Hi from New Zealand! My Haskell usage is more hobbyist than academic or industrial, but I've got a massive personal project written in Haskell (a browser engine). And I'm actively for one of my upcoming contracts (a converter between metadata formats) to use Haskell! I find I'm more productive in Haskell, and that my code is of generally higher quality. Its certainly not a popular language (neither is Erlang) though, which I have to actively plan for when suggesting it for a project. But given the dominance of C/C++, does that count for much? On 16/11/2023 1:00 am, haskell-cafe-request@haskell.org wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:27:57 +0000 (GMT+00:00) From: Henrique Caldeira To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Usage Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Good Evening from Portugal,

I write to you about the usage of Haskell because I had a professor recommending me Erlang instead because Haskell was "more for academic purposes", which left me wondering if all my time spent was spent only for curiosity sake.

I want to know how true my professor's statement is.

I am very passionate about Haskell, although I admit the ecosystem can be confusing sometimes (for example, when to use cabal or stack, which versions of packages to use in order to avoid conflicts, or simply installing them through nixos or arch can be a learning process).

Would love to hear your thoughts about all of this and thank you with all my heart.

Lastly, all these wonderings are asked in a curious, "wanting to learn more" mindset.

Kind regards, Henrique Caldeira