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I second this.

I’ve written tens of thousands of lines of Haskell, and I’ve never used lens. Also, putting it in the same category as text and vector doesn’t make sense — these are indeed unavoidable, and practically all my projects use them.




Thirded. No lens in pandoc (50k lines of haskell), darcs (40k), most hledger packages (15k).




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