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		ParetoOptimal on May 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered > Not until other languages raise their game. Nothing compares to Haskell for productivity and I've tried many different languages professionally over the years (including Haskell). 100% agree. > But yes, reasoning about what happens operationally is the big problem. What types of issues do you experience?

grumpyprole on May 4, 2023 [–]

> What types of issues do you experience?

In GHC Haskell, it can be difficult to predict the lifetime of heap objects and control when objects are not shared (optimisations may or not lift terms out of a local context).

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