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Is webmonkeying the only programming that's left?

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-03 10:08

Why is it that looking through the /haskell reddit, I see everyone talking web shit as if it were the most important thing in the world? Is making shopping carts really the only place where programmers can make money nowadays? Or is it just that the Haskell community is primarily oriented for the Web because it cannot into real programming?

If we want to grow commercial Haskell use significantly, we need to focus on performant full stack web development heavily.
Is Haskell is a fairly robust language for Web application in a sensitive area
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Name: Anonymous 2016-07-06 17:44

Webmonkeying is relevant because of web apps,
essentially we moved the desktop to the browser and in the browser the scripting language was javascript.
JavaScript improved very fast, because it powers the web and network effects of millions of servers, programmers and frameworks/libraries combined to start the Age of JavaScript.
When you see a respectable language like Haskell being transpiled into JavaScript, its because Haskell niche is inferior to JavaScript niche - not because JavaScript is better, but because JavaScript was in the right place and the right time to become the lingua franca of the web(and maintain its lead over competitors like silverlight, dart,etc).

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