alt Hacker News> What Haskell allows you to do in practice is defining required and missing control flows
It allows that in theory, at least, certainly. That's the whole reason for its existence. But in practice, developers become enamoured with the language and start to forget about the problem. If that weren't a problem we'd all be using Haskell, but back in the real world.
The reason we’re not all using Haskell is because like any language it has pros and cons and isn’t the best choice for every niche. Not because “developers become enamored with the language and start to forget about the problem”.
Anyway, why do Go fans always reach for the Haskell strawman in discussions like this? Most mainstream languages are not nearly as exotic as Haskell, while also not being intentionally crippled like Go. But for some reason Go fans always want to compare it to Haskell.
Even JavaScript, Python and Java are not allergic to adding modern features like iterator map/filter/etc., do you think those are esoteric ivory tower languages too?