[Peaker]

I wish someone capable authored a Haskell standard library replacement. It could have many improvements:

* Marking partial functions with some naming convention

* Polymorphic containers, with polymorphic "length" and other features people take for granted

* Removing monomorphic functions such as "map" and "empty" -- expose APIs almost always as part of generic classes

* type String = Text (Along with extra polymorphism it should not cause any trouble)

* Sane numeric hierarchy that matches the mathematical definition

* Fix the Monad/Applicative duplication mess (Also remove "fail" from Monad)

[njs12345]

I'd like this too - but I imagine part of the reason why this hasn't been done is that the recommended libraries are still in flux. Text is a very recent library, for instance.

Personally, I'd think Hackage getting some kind of support for popularity metrics would go some way to solving this problem, by helping create a consensus of what packages used the most by the Haskell community.

[gtani]

@njs There's a start on hackage 2, but it hasn't hit 0.1 yet

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/o5iov/modern_reallw...

@peaker I think each of your issues has prior art. The author of yesod has had his gotcha/critical-list, and a response from a Simon!

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/k4lc4/yesod_the_lim...

and partial functions in prelude

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/lf71l/deprecate_pre...

[gtani]

re: the Functor/App'tive/Monad hierarchy

http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Proposal-Move-the-insta...

re: redoing Num and numeric tower (prolly won't happen)

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nt0op/i_wrote_a_mod...

also: quality/popularity of packages, as more and more hit git/github, they could post #s of forks, pulls etc, as a crude proxy for ... something