Haskell vs Python in the Age of AI
satnam6502 · x · 2026-07-12
The author shares an article's perspective: a company switched its codebase from Haskell to Python because the relative value of Haskell's type system dropped in the AI era, while its slow build times became a bigger issue.
They pose an interesting counterfactual: if the team had switched to Lean, they might have retained many of Haskell's benefits while leveraging AI theorem provers to prove formal properties of the code, or even assist AI in generating code with formal properties. The author notes build times could still be an issue, but believes it can be mitigated.
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