Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists
Another day, another programming language feels the heat from AI.
A prominent Haskell-based software platform is shifting new development to Python, with its founder arguing that Haskell's tooling and ecosystem have been slow to adapt to AI-assisted development.
“Haskell is in real danger,” warned Scarf founder Avi Press, in a post entitled “After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell.”
“AI is here to stay. The people and ecosystems that use it well are going to move much faster than the people and ecosystems that do not.”
Press’ post set off a firestorm of controversy within the Haskell community, which is small but vocal, and likely felt the sting of one of its most prominent users defecting to the comparatively toy-like Python to better serve the needs of agents.
“Trying to change the language to work better for some metric of ‘better’ with AI is...
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