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by picozeta 1467 days ago
Yes, if performance is the main concern, Rust looks good. However if I can get by with GC I still would choose something like Go, as I am just getting to a working solution faster.

And I spent way less time learning Go than learning Haskell.

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> And I spent way less time learning Go than learning Haskell.

...And you've got what you paid for.

Google paid quite a lot internally to develop Go, and despite its many flaws it at least has mechanical sympathy for the computers it runs on.

I've read GHC assembly and it seems to be intentionally trying to run poorly - eg it calls everything through unpredictable function pointers. No, this isn't CPUs' fault, as GHC people do try to be optimal, they are just failing. jhc produced good code but isn't maintained afaik.

Maybe Haskell is overpriced?
In terms of learning, Haskell is like a lootbox game. You can definitely do great things with a minimal budget, but people get addicted and end up spending fortunes on additional content ;)