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by mortyseinfeld 4535 days ago
We're still in the dark ages when it comes to software development, and I don't believe it's because we're using Java instead of Haskell.

I believe we need much more powerful tools that help us in understanding large code bases. Tools that can help us visualize what's going on. Tools that can do testing for us. Tools that can rewrite code for us (think Resharper or other Jetbrains refactoring tools), but an order of magnitude better.
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dasil003 4535 days ago
Why don't you think Haskell will help with this? If Java can't prevent a NullPointerException I don't see how static analysis can take the tooling where you want it to go.
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mortyseinfeld 4535 days ago
It's zero-sum if the tooling around Haskell is antiquated compared to Java's. But the idea that a language is going to make us "that" much more productive has to go. We need much, much better tools.
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