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by coldtea 4189 days ago
With the exception of pandoc, I don't recall seeing anything particularly impressive from the Haskell camp.

(Btw, this, actual stuff people use, is how I measure programming languages -- this metric takes into account communities, libraries, practical issues, etc all together, and ties them with practical results. It's my version of "let the market decide").

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Darcs used to be the poster child for Haskell but then somebody came along and wrote a much better DVCS in C, of all languages. Draw your own conclusions...
Still use darcs to this day. Darcs is magical AND productive. I use a script to play back my darcs commits into a git repo so i can put my projects on github. I love you darcs, I love you.
A much worse DVCS, but written by a famous person.
I think you're forgetting QuickCheck, which has been ported to many other languages.
xmonad also comes to mind.

But you're talking more about products than programming languages. Haskell contributed a LOT to programming theory.

Your every day coding is most likely using things coming directly from Haskell without you knowing it.

jQuery and Javascript Promises comes to mind, I know they started in C++ put they are practically Monads.
Since when did monads become a synonym for Haskell?
You really need to learn monads to use Haskell, and it's one of the major barriers for newcomers. It's no different from pointers in C.
Since 2000 tutorials emphasizing them as the gist of Haskell programming...
I think you mean one specific kind of a Monad.
You may want to check out Warp [1]. Another quite popular haskell project you may have heard about is this compiler some people use... is called ghc :) [2]

1: http://aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html

2: https://github.com/ghc/ghc