Haskell

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Would I scrap Haskell in favour of Python, now in the age of agentic coding? No. No I would not.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “code written in a language people have used for formal proof (seL4 model is Haskell) and deployment wise a binary that +/- libraries you depend on ought to be reasonably portable”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Learning Haskell is great for learning domain modeling—I learned domain modeling through Haskell myself.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “I only use Haskell in hobby projects outside of work but somewhat regularly run into problems with package bounds causing conflicts or forcing some project on to an older GHC than I'd like”

  LUKEWARM · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Learning Haskell and maintaining projects in it is now easier than ever.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Things where Haskell remains best-in-class is anything nontrivial-webservers, I/O, program correctness, the main "general purpose" programming, refactoring and long-term maintainability.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Haskell is great, once you write code, chance of certain kind of bugs appearing is very low”

  MIXED · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “wrote the prelude in Haskell. Both the bindings and the prelude took less time than I already wasted on multiple attempts in Starlark that all collapsed into string goop. It's nice to be able to bound the execution environment in a build tool but still use a serious programming language.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-05

• “having learned Haskell, your point resonates perfectly. In the Haskell mindset, letting string-matching rules alter the actual semantics of a program is fundamentally wrong.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-29

• “I've started some experimentation w/ this in Haskell and it's going well so far.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “significant whitespace today is still terrible, coming from Haskell”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “IDK, I haven't written a ton of Haskell in a while maybe I've forgotten some of its magic”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-28

• “i am always a top percentile haskeller at the company so i can code however tf i want lolol”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-03

• “Haskell is plenty fast for our use case and we don't have to write lifetime annotations everywhere and think about borrowing”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-30