Why isn't Haskell as popular as other languages if it is so safe and so expressive?

Very hard to write and memorize.
Seems like math. Who wants more math in his life?

Also, it's a matter of habit and support. Other languages are used more frequently so people tend to prefer them and support them.

I love haskell. I am struggling a bit with the module/package systen but other than that is it awesome and used in various little personal projects..

Because you don't need to go out of your confort zone.

because it's 31337 and was created by full time akademia folks who barely are in contact with the real world? 😄

I can't code, but i find the Haskell syntax beautiful. No comparison to Java.

Haskell’s great, but for some reason, some people (@j4cobgarby) don’t like it

@zacg what? When did I say that?

I love Haskell & it’s clearly on another level to most other languages. The sheer impact that it’s had on the direction of language development speaks volumes (half the schitck of Python including list comprehensions, indentation, aspects of lazy evaluation & lambdas came from Haskell!).

I’m sure it’s not the best language for EVERY task (is any)? But it’s incredibly versatile, mature while staying cutting edge, nice toolchain (stack tool), lots of good quality libs, a pleasure to write & performative (+ all the other stuff mentioned).

Probable reason that it’s not more popular with the general population is that you need to do quite a bit of preliminary study before getting down and dirty with it, and it’s pretty much completely new theory while other imperative language is just a change of syntax and a few new things to learn. There’s a decent amount of Category Theory to study to really master it and everyone seems to be confused by Monads until they realise that they’re easy.