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  • haskell is one of the mathematically founded functional languages, which is a whole family of loosely related languages that have seen lower uptake over the years. Other examples include ML and variants, and F#.

    There are a few reasons why adoption has been slow:

    • poor outreach by language founders
    • less focus on commercial use
    • novel syntax
    • core abstractions that differ from mainstream

    Many of these are seeing some change. Haskell is getting better at outreach and comercial focus, and Rescript (ml for the web) has a lot of syntactical similarity to ja|ascript.