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Leaving Haskell behind — Infinite Negative Utility

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For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily...

Leaving Haskell behind August 22, 2023 For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily Ruby and C++ in about 2019—I would have called myself first and foremost a Haskell programmer. Not necessarily a dogmatic Haskeller! I was—and still am—proudly a polyglot who bounces between languages depending on the needs of the project. However, Haskell was my default language for new projects, and in the absence of strongly compelling reasons to use other languages I would push for Haskell. I used it for command-lin

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