James Haydon

Why (some) Python programmers don't want Haskell

4 minute read Published: 2023-07-16

A Haskell discourse thread asks why more Python developers couldn't instead be using Haskell.

One of the points made in this thread, is that there is a sizeable class of Python programmers for which the trope "Python programmers will be scared of monads!" doesn't apply. I thought I would ask some of the people I know that use Python why they don't use Haskell.

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