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These are by far not the biggest problems with Haskell and splitting the language will definitely not help.


It does seem like coffeescriptification. I would argue the way to tidy up Haskell is

1. decide on a decent non GHC extended standard. (maybe the last one was good enough? not been following)

2. build out a decent standard library to cover all the usual things from datetime handling to web serving without using GHC extensions

Then let everyone use that

Even better have a JVM/CLR type target for syntax experimentation. I think they have this already.




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