[davidhollander]

> Unless you have lots and lots of time to spend micro-optimizing everything, you'll get better performance writing in Haskell.

This is stating the case too strongly. Performance wise, the naive, unoptimized solution in Haskell (ex. using the default String type instead of Data.ByteString, number crunching using lots of iteration\recursion) is going to be much slower than than the naive, unoptimized solution in C or Lua. However, for a given subset of the range between "zero" and "micro" levels of optimization, for a given problem, Haskell may still represent the local maximum.

[lmm]

Spending the same amount of development time as the naive, unoptimized solution in C or Lua would take will get you something more performant than the naive, unoptimized solution in Haskell.

[asdasf]

ByteStrings are not the alternative to Strings! Text is.