[Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

Krasimir Angelov kr.angelov at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 04:45:46 EDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of
> lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day
> (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new
> libraries a year at the current rate.

This is missleading and depends on how you count the libraries. For
instance "base" is now split into "arrays", "containers", "process",
"parallel" .... etc. In the same time on platforms like Java and .NET
this might be only one package.

Krasimir


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