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The developers of Haskell at Microsoft Research may claim that " Haskell is the world’s finest imperative programming language " but the flagship Haskell implementation GHC still suffers from serious long-standing bugs in its garbage collector that make it impossible to solve many important problems efficiently in Haskell. We previously rediscovered a serious bug in GHC's garbage collector that rendered every write into an array O(n) instead of O(1) because the GC marks the entire array as dirty and traverses every element at the next minor GC. In particular, this makes it impossible to implement hash tables and sorts efficiently in Haskell. Surprisingly, this bug turned out to be many years old and had been reported by many people before us. Failure to fix this bug in GHC has been forcing Haskell programmers to resort to elaborate workarounds such as manual memory management via the FFI as seen in the Haskell implementation of the knucleotide benchmark from the Comput...

As the world moves on to higher-level programming languages like F# , demand for C++ programmers is at an all-time low. According to IT Jobs Watch, the number of UK job postings citing C++ is continuing to fall at a rate of 40% per year . Market share of C++ among programming languages has fallen from 30% to 15% over the past four years: This has prompted employers to offer salaries up to $208k in order to secure members of the increasingly-rare breed that is C++ programmers.