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by demygale 3189 days ago
I would be willing to be a significant amount of money that Haskell will not be a mainstream language in my lifetime.
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Maybe not Haskell itself but very likely a derivative.

Look at it this way. ReactJS is functional programming but in JS. The natural home of this way of building UI is in a ML like language. Can already be done in purescript for example.

Once people get their heads around react and reduces, changing to a type system like ML will yield obvious advantages