Sincere thanks for all the work that you've done for the Haskell ecosystem, it's much appreciated and will be sorely missed. I'm interested in why you think recent changes are making Haskell a less viable alternative to mainstream languages. My experience is the opposite - beginners frequently ask "why is x not a superclass of y?" and "why does function a seem to be the same as b?", and are horrified to be told that it's for historical reasons (y existed before x, a existed before the more general b, etc.). This is a big anti-climax for someone coming from a "mainstream" language, where type classes are all in the expected logical hierarchy, and functions/types always have the most general constraints possible. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Taking-a-step-back-tp5820315p5820322.ht... Sent from the Haskell - Libraries mailing list archive at Nabble.com.