Gabriella Gonzalez - How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

[@AesaKamar]

Insightful talk and great book recommendation, thanks for sharing.

[@aoeu256]

We need a good Haskell ide that shows data flowing through your functions, can easily apply rewriting rules to code so you can see the various different ways that code can look like, we also need automatic ways to rewrite your program so that monads and extra arguments are automatically threaded through your program. Haskell also needs a solver to help you code sort of like Agra and ide is. Also haskell should merge with hose languages. Another thing is Haskell should come with template haskell macros that can do trace rewriting so that people can visualize Haskell code easily.

[@robertpeszek6892]

IMO In an odd way this idea could work. Mainstream answer to problems with creating DSLs is to not create DSLs. Interpreters is a market mini-segment if anything (with job count

[@aoeu256]

eDSLs can be good with an ide that uses different rewrite rules to remove different parts of the magic depending on what you press.

[@aoeu256]

Haskell has to compete with Scala(too complex), swift, Julia, Rust, Ocaml, reasonml, Python, Clojure, Racket, Eff language. If Haskell moves to the Jvm, Python byte code, web assembly, hmm

[@EugeneCrosser]

Nice jab at go at 15:35 :) Speculation that completes at 29:05 sounds easy to believe, but does any data support it? Was that what happened with C++, Python, Java? I have doubts...

[@griof]

Haskell is not good for data science because of the type system. From programming pov, Data science is dominated by "get shit done" philosophy, which kind of conflict with formalism and correctness. Also, most data scientists don't care about good quality software but we do care about good quality PowerPoints.

[@mickaelgauvin4780]

shitty World

[@mskiptr]

OTOH not having your presentation screwed up by nulls could be an asset I guess. Btw, could we get something like ghci, but in gui and with some `Visualize` typeclass instead of `Show`? I mean, doing interactivity through simple and easy interfaces would be vastly superior to duck-typing or special-case library integration

[@brandonlewis2599]

With Haskell, you could probably generate your powerpoint slides directly from your data.

[@tincho15neem]

Wow! You finally did an absolutley boring Haskell talk! Good job!