Haskell

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Haskell is good for academic study, but to get peak performance you have to right really nasty code. Erlang is a lot more practical, and while I wouldn't say "huge" is certainly very useful for certain domains.

Just learn Scheme instead.

Look at yourselves and what you have become.

the irc is pretty active.

Is a mailing list still the best way for a tech community to exchange ideas? It seems to be that it would be so, as all other options are owned by some outside entity. IRC is fine, but it's ephemeral and no one wants to plow through logs to find their answers.

Yeah. Actually, several communities now consider mailinglists to be what saves them from having to deal with CS Grads as millennials can't figure out email. There's zero bullshit on many of them, I'd give examples but I don't want to leave a trail for the horde to follow.

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It's the reality of tech today. As long as a community is unknown to the cancer it's safe.