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by rschuetzler 4400 days ago
I think this post missed the mark by claiming that Hakyll blogs aren't updated because it's Hakyll, and therefore hard. I think the type of person who will set up a Hakyll blog just may not be the kind of person who will blog frequently. I have set up a Jekyll blog, Wordpress, Ghost, and now I'm using Octopress. Each time I set up a new blog I think "Ya, this new platform is great. It will be exactly what I need to blog regularly." Then a month later I still haven't posted anything. I enjoy blogging with Jekyll. I like writing my posts in Markdown, and I have no problem with the "git commit, push cycle." I just don't blog that often, and so far no platform I have found has changed that fact.
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I think doing some sociology studies around computer languages would be really interesting.

Do people that use Haskell self select for doing new things?

People that like to try new things are certainly more likely than others to try a language created as late as the 90's that never had a marketing budget.