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by Peaker 4733 days ago
1. More safety from bugs in general, not just crashes. Haskell programs will generally be more reliable than Go programs.

2. If you look at the Benchmarks game, you will actually see that Haskell beats go there.

I think this benchmark is far narrower than the Benchmarks game and is thus less representative.

3. shouldn't really be a serious consideration for a career programmer (weeks to a couple months of learning to be more effective for years to come is a no-brainer).

4. is untrue, Haskell has already gained more popularity than the ML languages had in the past. And so is F#.