On 6 Oct 2015, at 19:31, John Wiegley wrote:
It must be stated, however, that some have become frustrated by the frozen state the Haskell language has entered. No substantial changes have occurred since 1998.
Haskell has de-facto undergone huge changes and additions since 1998. The official language standard may not have kept pace, but a huge amount has happened in the last 17 years: FFI, Cabal&Hackage, type families, just to pick the first three that come to mind. No-one objects to these improvements. The language and its ecosystem are not frozen. What many people do object to is unnecessary and under-motivated breakage of existing code. The "monad of no return" proposal promises no new semantic benefits, just a small conceptual tidy-up, but at a huge cost to the community at large. It is of a completely different category to the substantial and useful changes that we are used to. Regards, Malcolm