Yeah, I concluded the same thing. Languages with standards seem to be largely worse off than languages with canonical implementations with regard to interoperability and ecosystem coherence. I think maybe the problem is that if your standard isn't restrictive enough to ensure general interoperability, you end up without it.
It seems strange that Haskell seems to be a special case to this, but even there you see language extensions that ghc supports but Hugs et al do not. It's just that, for most people, ghc just wins outright. SML/NJ vs MLton is a harder question to decide given the freakish performance that MLton can achieve.
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Yeah, I concluded the same thing. Languages with standards seem to be largely worse off than languages with canonical implementations with regard to interoperability and ecosystem coherence. I think maybe the problem is that if your standard isn't restrictive enough to ensure general interoperability, you end up without it.
It seems strange that Haskell seems to be a special case to this, but even there you see language extensions that ghc supports but Hugs et al do not. It's just that, for most people, ghc just wins outright. SML/NJ vs MLton is a harder question to decide given the freakish performance that MLton can achieve.