"John A. De Goes" <j...@n-brain.net> wrote: > Personally, I'd be happy to see that explosion of innovation in the > library and tool spaces, even if it means the language itself stops > evolving (for the most part). It will make it a lot easier do use > Haskell commercially, and the innovators in the language space will > find or invent a new target to keep themselves occupied. > And this is why we must avoid success: It would mean instant failure. There are already enough hype-languages around, there's not too much of a point to add one to them. Haskell won't stop evolving and (conservatively) keeping up with PL research until that's done, or Dependent Typing is well-understood, whatever comes first.
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