I'm several days into a simple Haskell side project, and it's been very tricky. Haskell has five common string datatypes, plus others!
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"Static type systems can help working on large code bases. Immutable datatypes can help too."
I've seen this regularly asserted, and I generally agree, but how do we measure this? What other things help?
Surprisingly few dynamic languages have a full complement of immutable datatypes. Eg Python only has tuple and frozenset built in.
TIL XEmacs has more datatypes! For example, a keymap is an opaque type rather than a list:
