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As a haskell nerd, I feel that I have the moral authority to declare you king of the nerds.
"Ha! You think your language has macros? You call that a macro?! This list processing code is a list of tokens, why wouldn't it be able to edit itself?"
It breaks my brain.
Is haskell still alive?
Absolutely. It's just that less fuss is being made about it on hacker news because the cool kids say you'll be a better programmer in other languages if you learn rust when they used to say that you'll be a better programmer in other languages if you learn haskell.
With stack (consistent package version snapshot database based project starter and build tool) instead of cabal, you get the transferable and repeatable build benefits of docker with none of the hassle. Just
stack new
at the start andstack build
orstack repl
during development. Nothing gets bitrotten any more.Nah, I am not talking about hackernews buzz. I just thought it is dying couple of years ago.
When they said, "Don't write self modifying code", they obviously didn't mean me! /s