[ghc-steering-committee] Goals for GHC

Fri Sep 11 08:47:37 UTC 2020

Dear all,
I've read the post, and the discussion it spawned on Reddit. I agree with a
lot with the following comment there
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/iopcx3/blog_post_be_a_goalkeeper_what_are_the_haskell/g4fvj7d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

> I actually feel like something Haskell has always done very well is
balance the concerns of people with different goals and motivations. [...]
through its lifetime of serving as an academic research project AND an
educational tool used in freshman programming classes AND and a stable
language for production work

I have the feeling that people think that GHC is less rounded that it is
due to the myriad of extensions one needs to enable to bring some
functionality in (MultiParamTypeClasses + FlexibleInstances +
FlexibleContexts come to mind for any class-based programming). This is one
of the reasons I wanted to push the new GHC2020 "standard".

Alejandro

El jue., 10 sept. 2020 a las 18:01, Simon Peyton Jones via
ghc-steering-committee (<ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org>) escribió:

> Dear GHC Steering Committee
>
> Dmitrii makes a good point about GHC in this blog post.  To discuss.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>    - Be a goalkeeper
>    <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.us10.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D49a6a2e17b12be2c5c4dcb232%26id%3D4f39ccf06b%26e%3Df74e57acee&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7Cd9841d6e24be47aea9c308d8559259dc%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637353434346685776&sdata=d4w9i%2Fqh0a%2F1qIDMgEuyDELOcT02qgN7Gh2S84rQedA%3D&reserved=0>
>    by Dmitrii Kovanikov
>
> You may find this blog post useful, if you are interested in maintaining
> any project for a long time and keep your sanity during this process.
>
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