Haskell doesn&#x27;t seem to be a very good language for doing hard or soft realtime, or simulation (realtime games, flight simulation, robotics, industrial control etc.). On the other hand, given appropriate memory management which looks to be in the works, native Scala seems a pretty good fit.<p>It seems to me Scala is potentially much more &quot;general purpose&quot; than Haskell. In other words, &quot;more practical&quot;.