On: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux

[kanetw]

The absolute killer app is compilers, static analyzers, and similar. Other languages don't even come close for anything in that space.

However, I think that purely functional languages are useful for basically everything. Haskell is my general purpose language of choice, unless libraries or system constraints force me to another language.

[macando → kanetw]

> The absolute killer app is compilers, static analyzers, and similar.

In other words, those problems that don't involve users and the outside world.

Pure languages for pure problems. Impure languages for impure problems. It computes.