#Haskell'ers, you swapped the type specifier and the cons symbol (single and double colon), and thought you can get away with that?!
Seriously, why?
@amiloradovsky I'm just curious, why so many people with OCaml background dislike Haskell so much?
@newt
It's culture (often arrogant and inadequately pretentious), negligence for the ecological aspects, focus on short-term gain at the cost of long-term pain — typical industrial technology though, nothing special.
@amiloradovsky what do you mean by ecological aspects?
@newt
Externalities. Everything regarding infrastructure, sustainability, "climate" and "pollution": e.g. reaching and teaching aspects. See also "technical debt".
For instance, optimizing the language for writing by insiders, as opposed to reading by outsiders, is not a good approach in the long run.
It's hard to describe precisely, but I guess you've go what I mean.
@amiloradovsky btw, what are the best OCaml projects to get more familiar with the language? I've been curious about it and Scala for quite some time, but I haven't had a chance to do something useful with them.
Writing a mastodon bot in OCaml, I can imagine, would be a great start.
@amiloradovsky thanks, I have already seen it, as well as HaLVM and other library operating systems.
@newt
P.S. If you're less into Web and more into the low-level stuff, check out #Mirage OS.