I've immersed myself in the Haskell community for the past couple of years and while I'd agree that a few posts try to race a Haskell implementation against a C version, these are in the extreme minority.
I feel that you have mis-characterised a whole community, very few of whom care to make Haskell faster than C and overwhelmingly share your view that "C-grade performance is not required".
Further, in the posts I've read of people comparing to C, if anything C is held up as the benchmark as a mark of respect - not as something to cheat against, not to try to say that Haskell is better. Indeed Haskell's FFI out to C is really nice, and demonstrates the pragmatic side of this ivory-tower language :)
This post first embraces its clickbait article and then highlights that even though the Haskell version may be faster on multicore systems (at least for ascii - the unicode version may be incorrect wrt. unicode spaces), but that in practical situations without caching this may not provide any benefit. You're acting as if OP submitted his binary to Apple, *BSD and all the Linux distros with a pull request saying his is better! It's a fun post golfing some Haskell performance issues.
I frequently open a bunch of tabs in firefox and then go through them one by one. I got to the tab with your site and was genuinely confused;
I had the general idea that you were selling something, but wasn't sure what.
I didn't know why you only used a tiny amount of my pretty normally sized screen (no content?)
It was only when I got to the showcase that I felt remotely interested (as it is, I only got that far based upon the faith that I opened the tab so it MUST have something of interest in it). I think the showcase should be on the front page.
On a related note I frequently check out "new programming language!" websites. Unless they have a quick example on the front page I close the tab and forget about them.
I'm pretty sure that most people will exhibit this kind of disinterest: if you want my money you need my interest first. Show me something interesting and concise straight away or I'll walk.
I feel that you have mis-characterised a whole community, very few of whom care to make Haskell faster than C and overwhelmingly share your view that "C-grade performance is not required".
Further, in the posts I've read of people comparing to C, if anything C is held up as the benchmark as a mark of respect - not as something to cheat against, not to try to say that Haskell is better. Indeed Haskell's FFI out to C is really nice, and demonstrates the pragmatic side of this ivory-tower language :)
This post first embraces its clickbait article and then highlights that even though the Haskell version may be faster on multicore systems (at least for ascii - the unicode version may be incorrect wrt. unicode spaces), but that in practical situations without caching this may not provide any benefit. You're acting as if OP submitted his binary to Apple, *BSD and all the Linux distros with a pull request saying his is better! It's a fun post golfing some Haskell performance issues.