As a recent beginner, I've found it incredibly hard to write something practical by putting a library into good use. If you want more that printing out Fibonnac

As a recent beginner, I've found it incredibly hard to write something practical by putting a library into good use. If you want more that printing out Fibonnacci sequences, like printing out your own Twitter stream, like I have done, you better be ready for a lot of pain. The twitter module makes extensive usage of lens, wraps everything with conduit (at least within the examples). Conduit itself is exhaustively documented, as are lens, but you can't get started without a couple of external tutorials, since there is no practical description of the basic underlying concepts in the main documentation on hackage. And even then you don't know exactly how everything fits in, since all you get is for the most part what, but not how and especially why you should be using this what. So my basic impression is: as soon as you know where the library fits in and how it works and even more importantly why it is doing things the way it does, you can get by just by using type signatures. But that knowledge is usually hidden behind a myriad of half-done blog posts and well-meant tutorials, which introduce you to the what but still assume a good deal of knowledge about why. And the rabbit hole gets larger with every dependency boiled onto your actual study target. It's not by any means impossible to get in, but I think it could get a lot better. Just making a habit of merging tutorials and introductions into the module's documentation would be a great step forward. A mandatory ELI5 section might do wonders :)