We received 553 answers to the question “If you could change one thing about Haskell, what would it be?”. This is the breakdown.

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Analysis of 553 free-form responses from the State of Haskell Survey 2025 asking what one thing respondents would change about Haskell. Major themes include: replacing String with Text in base, improving beginner onboarding and documentation, reducing language complexity and historical cruft, fixing the record system, faster GHC compilation, better tooling consolidation and developer experience, and addressing pervasive laziness. Minor topics include dependent types, effect systems, debugging, and community growth. An underlying tension between academic and industrial users of Haskell is also highlighted.

What Would You See Changed in Haskell?