I wonder why the Python ecosystem, which is much more mature
I hope I'm not being too pedantic but Python's ecosystem is much larger than Haskell's, it isn't really more mature. Haskell and Python are very similar in age as languages go.
I hope I'm not being too pedantic but Python's ecosystem is much larger than Haskell's, it isn't really more mature. Haskell and Python are very similar in age as languages go.
* Millions of person-hours being poured into a language...
* ...Over a long enough time period that the language can go through several develop-eval-improve cycles - that take real world use cases (And not one-liner bubble sort implementations) into account.
In this sense, it doesn't matter whether or not Haskell was invented in 1890, or 1990. #2 is required for maturity, but so is #1.
(I am not a huge Python fan.)
Diversity matters. A language that one person tinkered on for thirty years is far less likely to be useful, then one that ten people tinkered on for three years. Or, in the case of Python vs Haskell, a hundred people who tinkered on it for twenty-five years.
Python's ecosystem is certainly much more complete, and stable in the sense that radically new concepts don't appear every day.
Haskell's ecosystem is more reliable in the sense that this feature you are using will probably not disappear in a year, and libraries have less conflicts.