I suppose it depends tremendously on the application you are developing but combining Haskell with things like Haxl[1] and opaleye-sot[2] can help simplify the

I suppose it depends tremendously on the application you are developing but combining Haskell with things like Haxl[1] and opaleye-sot[2] can help simplify the database aspect of things tremendously. Once you've abstracted away the persistence and querying details, I think you get to the best part of FP which is modeling the actual behaviour/flow of data and types. In a typical app lifecycle Haskell starts shining more as time goes on and the app grows past CRUD and in size. [1] https://code.facebook.com/projects/854888367872565/haxl/ https://code.facebook.com/projects/854888367872565/haxl/ [2] http://ren.zone/articles/opaleye-sot http://ren.zone/articles/opaleye-sot