Comment by stcredzero

You can sling dicts around in Haskell too if you want to. The reason people don't is that the alternative is easier.

This is extraordinary if it is true -- it would mean something in Haskell has succeeded in making the designed/intended "right way" in a programming language the "easy way."

I'm not so sure finding the right way to design a language/environment is right for a sole design focus anymore. A programming language/environment should be designed to unify and leverage the power of a community, in a way that elevates it above the level of "pop culture." (Where a pop culture is defined as one where the rate of change far outstrips the growth of actual value/knowledge.)