Out of curiosity, did you finish LYAH? And have you actually started using Haskell for any substantial projects? I was also recommended LYAH when I started, an

Out of curiosity, did you finish LYAH? And have you actually started using Haskell for any substantial projects? I was also recommended LYAH when I started, and it was only around the middle of the book when I started to get lost. I remember actually going along a GH repo somebody had made for "haskell exercises companion to LYAH", but I still found myself reading a chapter, and then having no idea how to actually use the concepts learned. Especially the concepts that are really "barriers" to understanding Haskell (monads, applicative, etc.) The problem with LYAH is that it teaches you "what" haskell is, but not "why" haskell is the way it is, nor "how" you should you think about Haskell. If you're not at least familiar with another FP language in the same space (probably a ML language), Haskell is not a language you "get up to speed" in.