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by harry8 2393 days ago
Oh for the day when monad tutorials and explanations don't outnumber useful Haskell programs with a purpose other than programming a computer by many orders of magnitude.

The list of such programs hasn't grown much since the last time I noticed that we did this 2-3 years ago has it? Git annexe, ion, pandoc, and..? There were a couple more than that, i think.

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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Except for Haskell which happens to be both!

Are you talking useful for us as developers, or Haskell being used in production? Because there are plenty of examples of Haskell being used in production.
Postgrest is a pretty cool one. And arguably Elm could be included. That's getting more widely used
There's more Haskell-based software out there than the stuff that's open source or advertised as being Made With Haskell
I think Xmonad is the biggest one.