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My desire to be productive is at odds with my appreciation for Haskell. Don't get me wrong, I love the language, it's elegant, absolutely awesome (apart from wh
by Kenji 11y ago
My desire to be productive is at odds with my appreciation for Haskell. Don't get me wrong, I love the language, it's elegant, absolutely awesome (apart from whitespaces with semantic meaning). But sometimes I feel like the language, despite its expressiveness, is like a tight straitjacket. And then I just write some JavaScript or Java or C++ or PHP and feel so much freer.
- coolsunglasses 11y agoThat's down to comfort, yes. Haskell lets me work faster because I'm over the "hump". Just a question of investment.
- Gabriel439 11y agoI like to think of Haskell's types as traffic lights. They might get in the way if you're the only driver on the road but the moment you have to deal with other people they are a life saver. That's why people favor Haskell in enterprise environments because types keep everything sane when you have multiple people working on the same project or you have large third-party dependency trees.