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Maybe the reason nobody bothered to make a new language standard is because to this day many people are still saying Haskell '98 when they refer to plain Haskell, while Haskell 2010 is 14 years old (kbin.social)
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Maybe the reason nobody bothered to make a new language standard is because to this day many people are still saying Haskell '98 when they refer to plain Haskell, while Haskell 2010 is 14 years old now.

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[–] bss03 1 points 2 years ago

Most people might say Haskell '98, but don't really mean it, because they don't want n+k patterns, and do want hierarchical modules.

Also, the FFI is simultaneously incredibly useful and a new level/kind of unsafety that doesn't exist in "pure" '98. And, with most Haskell programs still being native (not in-browser, or JVM, or CLR, or other VM), I think the FFI might be undervalued for it's frequency of use.