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The whole article builds on the premise that the main point of every programming language is adoption and growth, while for Haskell we have

> avoid success at all costs

According to that statement, to me it seems that the current "success" (however one defines it) of Haskell is just a side-effect.

Yes, it is used in industry, but I believe the bigger impact here is how other languages "steal" features from it.

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Rust would certainly not have existed in it's current form without Haskell.

There are many such “progenitor languages” that focus primarily on theoretical elegance such as Smalltalk, Scheme, and Haskell that might not see huge adoption but do inspire a rather lasting influence on many languages that grew far larger than they.