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Heh, similar thoughts! The main difference that I only used Scheme for SICP, and I've used a bit of Haskell.

I like Haskell in theory, but: just to get a hello world takes a lot of CPU and disk space. The standard library is full of exceptions (you can use a different prelude, that opens a whole different can of worms). The ergonomics of converting between the thousand different string types are awful.

So, you being basically me, I have some recommendations:

Idris (2): good stdlib, has dependent types. A beautiful language. The compiler is self-hosted and bootstrapped by lisp - very elegant! The ecosystem is basically nonexistent though.

PureScript: also improves on Haskell in many ways. But, it's more of a frontend language, and though you can do backend, you're stuck with JavaScript runtime. Oh well.





> The standard library is full of exceptions

By the way, the number of partial functions is base that throw compiler warnings is increasing, for example:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.21.0.0/docs/Prelu...

I hope it will increase further.




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