Dynamic linking feature is huge. One of the reasons C simply cannot go away is because it's the only fully portable medium for implementing algorithms and generic libraries: everybody loves talking to C libs. (zlib, cairo, libcurl, high-perf drivers for databases and so on)
Dynamic linking allows Haskell to graduate from the ranks of "glue languages" into a truly universal medium to develop libraries in. I just hope that Haskell-generated .so files can automatically initialize their runtimes (is there a Linux version of Windows DllMain?)
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(I kid, I kid. This is great. and dynamic linking is wonderful indeed. old-gregg - it's not too hard to hack it in, I'm doing it in Hubris.)