This is the first thing that he says during his keynote:
"So, in the next couple of days you're going to hear a lot about the latest and greatest in C++, You're going to hear a lot about advanced techniques and new features. And I decided that in the keynote I couldn't go too much into that, so I'm going to do the opposite. I'm going to try and focus on what is the essence of C++. What is it that has been constant over the decades and what it is that that keeps C++ alive and kicking."
It was clearly framed as a history lesson about C++'s strengths, so I think it is a bit disingenuous to claim he was teaching resource management to a crowd of advanced C++ programmers.
Bartosz, Haskell was created 23 years ago, before Java.
What is the reason it did not catch on yet? Will that change?
I'm not aware of any even mildly successful system that uses pure functional languages.
Most of the implementations I know about is either C/C++/ObjC or JVM. Some Python (Youtube, Dropbox), one .NET (StackOverflow) and pretty much that's it.
What do I miss?
It is used in production by Twitter, Netflix, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Simple, HealthExpense, Klout, 47 Degrees, Box and a long list of other companies [1].
When Herb wrote his free lunch article, I was still a strong C++ believer and I thought C++ could solve the multicore problem. I considered Haskell a toy language. Then I saw how quickly Haskell moved into the multicore arena with STM, Repa, Accelerate, and how C++ kept stumbling in the dark. After the C++11 fiasco I realized that C++ was a blind alley. Multicore revolution did to C++ what the Chicxulub asteroid did to dinosaurs.
