On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Ben Millwood
Besides, I'd think that often what Haskell developers lack is time more than skill - there are plenty of tasks that could be done without advanced knowledge of deep abstractions, if only someone could put aside a few weekends for them. For example, writing low-level FFI bindings is almost mechanical (i.e. requires basically no actual ingenuity) with the right tools, but it takes time and effort, so libraries go unbound.
It's more than just that; when talking about libraries for some specific task, what matters most is actually the language-agnostic knowledge of the task itself. Particularly in the case of IO-oriented libraries with lots of FFI bindings, someone who knows the underlying C library (or what-have-you) inside and out is probably going to get the best results from writing a library, even with little knowledge of Haskell. - C.