On Marketing Haskell
We dance around this issue in the comments to every Haskell story, but the reason Haskell is hard to market is that it&#x27;s bad. It&#x27;s a research language being shoehorned into production by a few people who really love it. Some details of this have been given in this thread; let me suggest the following threads for more:<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ocaml&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ifwe9&#x2F;what_are_ocamlers_critiques_of_haskell&#x2F;cugohyn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ocaml&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ifwe9&#x2F;what_are_ocam...</a>
2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ocaml&#x2F;comments&#x2F;e7g4nb&#x2F;haskell_vs_ocaml&#x2F;fa4bnsw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ocaml&#x2F;comments&#x2F;e7g4nb&#x2F;haskell_vs_oc...</a><p>Yes, the Haskell community hates that guy and considers him a troll. But he does functional programming professionally as part of a private consultancy and wrote a book on OCaml. If anyone&#x27;s equipped to understand what&#x27;s wrong with Haskell, it&#x27;s him.<p>Haskell has had 30 years to get its act together. Any benefits it has are drowned out by a sea of buggy tooling and accidental complexity (monads, etc.).<p>Ask yourself this: if there are literally billions of dollars in industry riding on writing efficient and correct software, and Haskell is such an obvious productivity win, why does it have a market share that rounds to zero?<p>Time to move on.