[Thoughts]Programming musings thread[General]

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Is there any point to Haskell except stroking your ego by pretending you're doing math?

I have spent like 8 months learning it and haven't done anything useful with it at all. What a waste. I'm cutting my losses right now before I waste more time diving into all the extensions and shit. I'm fucking done.

I think the reason I didn't make anything with it is the same reason no one else makes anything with it. It's faux-math bullshite. Making programs is a practical endeavor. Programming is engineering, not masturbatory dreaming about types. It also attracts and fosters a perfection seeking mindset. You get so obsessed with "correctness" that you accomplish Nothing.

The biggest software project written in Haskell will always be Haskell. It has as much of a future as Symta does.

I get why people get into Haskell. They want to feel smart. Next time I'll just read an actual math book. It'd be far more useful.