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The "Silver Bullet Syndrome" video by Hadi Hariri [1] is also worth a watch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs

Silver bullet: Hadi Hariri (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs

Every time people think a technology will solve all their problems (remember guys from NOSQL back in the days?), they need to see this talk. The speaker also did this talk as a keynote a couple of times during other conferences.

Silver bullet: Hadi Hariri (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs

Every time people think a technology will solve all their problems (remember guys from NOSQL back in the days?), they need to see this talk. The speaker also did this talk as a keynote a couple of times during other conferences.

I can't work out why you're being downvoted. Kneejerk reaction for anything that is critical of Haskell maybe? Unfortunately that does seem to be very common on HN.

Ben Lippmeier makes a very good point and is being quoted in full here. Haskell does have issues, and people are trying to fix those issues. If they can be resolved isn't known yet, and the resulting language may be different from Haskell. Haskell is a long way from some pinnacle of perfection, and it is very much not a silver bullet to solving problems. Not that anything in computer software is a silver bullet [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs

⬐ specifictso

This addressed all the uncertainty I've been ruminating on for a while now. Nice to finally get a down-to-earth, thought-provoking perspective on the morass that is software development from an experienced individual who doesn't have any ulterior motives.

A modern complement to the "No Silver Bullet" essay (http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/SERelat...)

I must take time to reflect and ponder now.