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Scarf Drops Haskell After 7 Years: AI Workflows Win

Avi Press, chair of the Haskell Foundation board, moved Scarf's production backend off Haskell after seven years, citing that AI coding agents made slow compilation economically unbearable. Press's post has generated hundreds of comments on Hacker News and discomfort in the Haskell community, as the person most invested in Haskell's future says he cannot justify using it anymore.

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Avi Press chairs the Haskell Foundation board — the organization tasked with keeping Haskell alive and relevant. He also just moved Scarf’s production backend off Haskell after seven years. Not because the language failed him. Because AI coding agents made slow compilation economically unbearable. That tension, laid out in a post he published yesterday, is now generating hundreds of comments on Hacker News and real discomfort on the Haskell community forums. This is not an outsider dunking on a language they never understood. It is the person most invested in Haskell’s future telling you he cannot justify using it anymore. […]

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