I’ve addressed both popularity (waned - rust is the cool new difficult-to-learn principled language now) and bitrottenness (rock solid). I’m not sure what else you were meaning if it wasn’t either of these.

Absolutely. It’s just that less fuss is being made about it on hacker news because the cool kids say you’ll be a better programmer in other languages if you learn rust when they used to say that you’ll be a better programmer in other languages if you learn haskell.

With stack (consistent package version snapshot database based project starter and build tool) instead of cabal, you get the transferable and repeatable build benefits of docker with none of the hassle. Just stack new at the start and stack build or stack repl during development. Nothing gets bitrotten any more.

I don’t think that’s how it works.

Have you come to 2025 in a time machine? Can I borrow it?

Fair.

I am not in this chart because my favourite programming languages are too nerdy for the cool programming nerds to include in their nerd chart.

As a haskell nerd, I feel that I have the moral authority to declare you king of the nerds.

“Ha! You think your language has macros? You call that a macro?! This list processing code is a list of tokens, why wouldn’t it be able to edit itself?”

It breaks my brain.

You sure love to argue against points that you perceive as supporting veganism, though!