According to this: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/10/20/language-rankings-6-22/

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What is surprising is that it is:

- more adopted than Clojure that I thought to be the most popular functional language (even though I think it's really bad).

- much more adopted than Erlang and F#, I thought Haskell is used less frequently than these.

- has almost as many projects as Elixir in GitHub, but much more popular on Stack Overflow - shows the strength of the community.

- as widely adopted as Perl.

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Looking at this chart I think we can get Haskell into the top 10 (or even 5) languages by solving several problems, as community (I do have a vested interest that it happens – our SimpleX Chat is written in Haskell):

- make JSON a first class citizen in Haskell code, ideally with some syntax-level support, without requiring QQ, rather than one of the most complex to use libraries. It doesn't seem a coincidence that 2 most popular languages - JavaScript and Python - make it really easy to integrate with JSON.

- make cross-platform compilation "manageable" (including mobile and web), not just "possible".

- solve problem of compiled binary size - it should be at least 5x, better 10x smaller – even if it comes at cost of 10x longer compilation time (so that we would only use it for production builds).

- at the same time, make interpreted tests execution simpler - I still can't figure out how to do it, waiting for several minutes until it builds with most cores idling is very time consuming... Maybe this is a solved problem, and there is a simple answer how to do it.

- make networking and cryptography more trustworthy - with exodus of some maintainers into Rust-land they are at risk of abandonment – I will share more comments on this subject a bit later.

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These are all issues that Haskell Foundation and community can help solving, we could chip in some time/money too if there is some concerted effort.