deech4d ago

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dysfun/116334732870051585

Context: https://blog.haskell.org/what-would-you-see-changed-in-haskell/

Show threaddeech4d ago

The String to Text thing is actually a great idea.

The record system extensions remain a bad idea. Back in the day I proposed a language change that adds a parallel record system since the 'record' keyword is not taken (or wasn't at the time).

Laziness is less of a problem than expected, at least for web backend. But when it does come up it is v hard to track down.

Compile times will never become faster and the tooling will always be a problem, they should set that expectation from jump.

Show threadgaytabase
@deech kinda embarrassing that haskell still doesn't have good record support.
Apr 2 at 11:41amWeb
Show threaddeech4d ago

@dysfun And it's impossible to ignore since any domain modeling ends up needing records of some sort.

Very unfortunate.

Show threadjeeger4d ago
@deech could you go into more details on the record system extensions? To me as an interested but inexperienced Haskell dev, it sounds like NoFieldSelectors and OverloadedRecordDot would improve the handling of records.