So I see many of you around here use

assembly. Is it just trollin' for /prog/, or do you actually perform your general-purpose programming in assembly? Is it really feasible to be a productive programmer by using just ASM?

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The Haskell community is indeed embarrassed by how bad a decision this turned out to be. As it happens, there is a replacement string type (Data.Text) which has way better constant-factor and asymptotic performance characteristics. Sadly, it's not the default, and is not even properly part of the standard library. Maybe in a future version that will change.