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Software Development Is Broken. We're Fixing It From The Language Up.

Every successful software company follows the same tragic arc:

- Day one: pure creativity, features ship in hours, everyone understands everything.

- Year one: velocity slows, meetings multiply, "technical debt" enters the vocabulary.

- Year three: the rewrite discussions begin.

- Year five: half your budget maintains what the other half tries to replace.

This isn't incompetence. It's not bad management. It's the inevitable result of building on foundations that turn human thoughts into machine instructions through layers of mistranslation.

The Broken Telephone Architecture

Watch how a simple business need travels through your organization:

The CEO says: "When customers upgrade, we should celebrate with them."

The CTO interprets: "Upon plan upgrade, trigger celebration workflow."

The Product Manager writes: "Implement upgrade handler with notification service integration."

The Developer codes: 

UPDATE users SET plan = 'premium'; INSERT INTO notifications...

Six months later, nobody remembers why that code exists. The celebration feature breaks. The developer who wrote it left. The new developer is afraid to touch it. The cycle of decay has begun.

This isn't a people problem. It's a technology problem. We're forcing humans to speak machine when machines should speak human.

Technology Shapes Thought

The tools we use shape how we think. When your language forces you to express everything as CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE, you start seeing the world as records to manipulate rather than events that happen. You stop thinking "customer upgraded" and start thinking "update customer record."

This subtle shift is poison. It disconnects your code from your business. It makes simple things complex. It makes change dangerous. It makes your software brittle where it should be antifragile.

The oldest ideas survive because everything unnecessary has been stripped away. Double-entry bookkeeping has worked for 700 years.Event ledgers are how humans naturally think about change. Banks don't UPDATE your balance; they record deposits and withdrawals. History doesn't UPDATE the past; it records what happened.

Why did we abandon this natural model for CRUD?

Because storage was expensive. Because computers were slow. Because we optimized for machines instead of humans.

Those constraints are gone. It's time for software development to become human again.

Enter NeoHaskell: Where Business Events Become Code

NeoHaskell isn't just another programming language. It's a fundamental rethinking of how human intention becomes running software.

When your business team says "customer plan upgraded" that's literally how you write it:

data CustomerPlanUpgraded = CustomerPlanUpgraded
  { customer :: CustomerId,
    fromPlan :: Plan,
    toPlan :: Plan,
    upgradeDate :: DateTime
  }

No translation. No abstraction. No impedance mismatch. Your business logic reads like a business conversation.

What Makes NeoHaskell Different

Event Sourcing Is The Language, Not A Library

Other languages make you fight for event sourcing. You need frameworks, libraries, careful discipline. One mistake and you're back in CRUD hell.

In NeoHaskell, event sourcing isn't something you add. It's something you'd have to work to avoid. Every state change is an event. Every event is immutable. Every system is automatically auditable, replayable, debuggable. The compiler doesn't let you store something in the database where you're not supposed to.

Mathematical Guarantees, Human Expression

From Haskell, we inherit something profound: if it compiles, it works. This isn't marketing, it's math. Entire categories of errors become impossible. Race conditions, null pointer exceptions, type mismatches, all gone.

But unlike Haskell, we've optimized for developer happiness, and we chase your success at all costs. The standard library feels familiar. There are no millions of operators to memorize. The concepts map to how you already think. The error messages actually help.

Linear Complexity In A Exponential World

In traditional systems, feature #100 might take 10x longer than feature #10. Dependencies tangle. Side effects multiply. Fear creeps in.

In NeoHaskell, feature #1000 takes the same effort as feature #1.New events don't break old ones. New handlers don't destabilize existing ones. Your system grows by addition, never by modification.

Where We Are Today

NeoHaskell is not complete. We're building this in public, with real production users, solving real problems.

What's Already Working:

- A Beautiful Standard Library: Carefully crafted APIs that make simple things trivial and complex things possible. Every function documented, every pattern thoughtful.

- Production-Ready Concurrency: Channels for message passing. Locks when you need them. Thread-safe variables that actually work. These are the primitives NeoHaskell is built on top of, ensuring your system is not only correct, but also blazing fast.

- In-Memory Event Store: Perfect for development and testing. Your events are safe, queryable, replayable.

- PostgreSQL Event Store (In Progress): Because production needs production databases. Built on boring, bulletproof technology. Coming together beautifully.

What's Coming:

We're building toward a complete platform that generates everything you need from your event model. Automatic API generation. Infrastructure that scales. Deployment that just works. The ease of low-code with the power of real programming.

Imagine describing your business events and getting:

- A GraphQL (or Swagger, or gRPC, or...!) API that updates in real-time

- A scalable infrastructure that handles millions of events

- Complete observability—know everything that ever happened

- Time travel debugging—replay any scenario instantly

- The ability to fork a stream of events from your production environment to your development environment for debugging

- Perfect audit trails—compliance becomes trivial

This isn't fantasy. We've already done parts of this in the past. With every release, more becomes automatic.

The Philosophy: Remove Everything That Gets In The Way

We're not adding features for their own sake. Every decision follows a simple principle: does this remove friction between human intention and running software?

- Configuration files? Removed. Your code should express intent clearly enough.

- Dependency hell? Removed. One tool, one purpose, one way that works.

- DevOps complexity? Removed. From code to cloud in one command.

- The fear of change? Removed. If it compiles, it works.

Who This Is For

You're a startup founder who knows that initial technical decisions determine your company's fate. You can't afford to be rewriting in two years when you should be scaling.

You're an enterprise architect tired of managing complexity instead of creating value. You want systems that grow gracefully, not ones that calcify.

You're a developer who came to this field to build, not to debug. You want to write business logic, not boilerplate.

You're a product manager exhausted by "technical limitations." You want your ideas to become features, not tickets that languish in backlogs.

You're a CEO who suspects you're spending too much on engineering for too little output. You're right. And it's not your team's fault.

The Invitation

We're not asking you to trust us blindly. We're building this with real companies, solving real problems, in production, today.

If you're tired of:

- Features that get exponentially harder to implement

- Teams that grow faster than output

- Systems that everyone fears to change

- The constant specter of "the rewrite"

Join us.

Software development should be joyful, not painful. Systems should become more valuable over time, not more dangerous. Technology should amplify human creativity, not constrain it. Your 1000th day of development should feel like your first.

Start Today

NeoHaskell is ready for pioneers. If you're building something new, if you're ready to escape the rewrite trap, if you believe software can be better: We're waiting for you.

The revolution isn't coming. It's being typed right now, one event at a time, by developers who refuse to accept that suffering is the price of scale.

Welcome to NeoHaskell. Welcome to software development as it should be.

The old world optimizes for machines. We're optimizing for humans. Join us.