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It would be, if the code wasn't so horrifically bitrotted at this point. GHC has changed a lot since Elm last got any meaningful update, and they decided to use unsafe GHC primitiv…

this got replaced with ghcup iirc

What do you mean the function to create a directory? When would you be creating directories outside of derivation build phases?

I find the options search to be generally suitable for that case https://search.nixos.org/options

This is just a ChromeOS tablet except it's running a customized version of ChromiumOS?

There's cadmium there, yeah. But cadmium is not addictive, and is not a reason for cigarettes being addictive. Removing the cadmium will not make cigarettes less addictive. Tobacco…

For simple languages, it can be a bit of a pain to write and maintain a lexer and a parser. For example, if I'm gonna parse JSON and nothing more, I think it's a bit silly to use a…

https://hoogle.haskell.org/ can be helpful for this

I'm really not a fan of IHP for that purpose due to how it redefines so much of the Haskell Prelude without making it clear it does that.

I don't really think many people are calling it a panacea. From my experience in the community most people I know who write Haskell write it for productivity reasons (including me,…

I personally don't like Rust (I like to have a garbage collector for what I do), but I don't think it's a hard to read language. Readability is an incredibly subjective thing. For …

Parametric polymorphism is even older than that! It's almost 60 years old, having originated in CPL.

Honestly, my main issues are with the lack of generics and the "dynamically typed effect system". The idea of a minimalist runtime and language reminds me of Clean a little bit.

Fair enough! Sorry, I didn't intend that to be rude, I just genuinely didn't understand as it seems to be two very conflicting ideologies merged.

Since when are generics automatic casting?

I cannot comprehend what would drive someone to make this.

Yeah! I worked with Robert Smith on porting it to modern CL implementations. Not a fun codebase.

I used to use CL quite a bit, but have since abandoned it for Haskell, so I'm a bit biased. There's a number of issues with that: - I'd be missing all the optimizations that can be…

And then when things like dependent types get involved, I'm betting that the amount of bugs greatly decreases, even more than that.

eh, iirc fused-effects is used in production, along with haskell (obviously)

I already brought this up with them, they knew about it but decided that it "doesn't have enough usage so we aren't worried about people getting our product confused with it".

My favorite example of this is probably Clean, which solves this using uniqueness types. You can have unique values that are managed using compile time memory management, but also …