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Its amazing that if you put down all the languages that consider themselves powerful and scalable you somehow reach what religion is...everybody thinks their god is the only one, and if one indeed exists all the rest are wrong by default!

Technology is fair and there is a reason why haskell is not used apart from niche or academic projects. If you want to use jvm to deliver functionality for your users just a "boring" technology. No user, never, cared about the programming paradigm.

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> haskell is not used apart from niche or academic projects

While haskell doesn't have as wide adoption as the top languages, your comment is not true. Even facebook uses haskell for fighting spam.

> If you want to use jvm to deliver functionality for your users just a "boring" technology

You're entitled to your preference, but I assume you'd say the same about about Clojure and Scala then, since, after all, everyone should just be using Java?

You would be correct if we branded it as "the" powerful language, but we used "a" meaning it's one of many for you, the programmer to chose. I have practically found Haskell-like languages to deliver lots of value in business settings and I want to bring those advantages to everyone who would like to take advantage of it, reducing the risk of adoption as much as possible. No user ever cared about the programming paradigm, but I think they would be happy if bugs were fixed faster (or not present in the first place) or if new features were added without breaking existing features.

I hear you, but I don't know that technology is "fair". That's a bit much. I mean, JavaScript just got there first. It's a downright terrible language.

> No user, never, cared about the programming paradigm.

This is an old straw man. No one is trying to sell the language to users, but rather to developers; and developers look for toolchains that let them deliver features to users.

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