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by masklinn 1578 days ago
> GHC seems to be more of a platform for crafting your own language than rust.

It’s always been that tho, one of the motivations behind Haskell was to have a unified basis for FP language research: at the time (late 80s) there were a dozen half-assed half-implemented languages in the space, and the main and most stable platform (Miranda) was proprietary software.