[gregwebs]

Haskell has killThread, which rather than being an anti-pattern is often used as an effective way to accurately enforce a timeout on a thread. This functionality seems like it would be very difficult to achieve with most other runtimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370004

[steveklabnik]

You have a sibling comment elsewhere in the thread which disagrees; I'll leave that argument to that sub-thread.