[throwaway81523]

If you want to code in Pascal, you know where it is. Pascal was designed for fast, one-pass compilation, and its compilers don't have to do nearly as much work as Haskell compilers or even C compilers. Of course you could go even further and use Forth, but then you are doing even more work manually that the compiler could be doing for you.

GHC's compilation speed is in the same category as G++, which isn't great, but we users are mostly used to it, and deal with it by standard methods like separate compilation.

Some of the other issues you mention (such as crashes) are more significant, while some (IDE integration) are mostly a matter of the hardcore users not caring that much. I'm not that hardcore myself, but I was satisfied with Emacs Haskell mode until it broke a few releases ago, and even now it's fine for editing Haskell code, just not for running it inside the editor.

[Zababa]

> If you want to code in Pascal, you know where it is. Pascal was designed for fast, one-pass compilation, and its compilers don't have to do nearly as much work as Haskell compilers or even C compilers.

OCaml is at a good spot between Pascal and Haskell for that. Compared to Haskell, I find the tooling easier to understand but maybe not easier to use at first.