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As someone who is very interested in the experience of people learning Haskell I'd like to ask a question. Why did you stop learning Haskell after lens eluded
by tome 7y ago
As someone who is very interested in the experience of people learning Haskell I'd like to ask a question. Why did you stop learning Haskell after lens eluded you, rather than just turning your attention to some other aspect of Haskell instead?
(After all, I've been interested in lens since it first came out seven or so years ago. I'd consider myself an expert in that type of technology and yet there are still parts I don't understand!)
- caconym_ 7y agoI felt that I'd reached a point of reasonable proficiency with the language, and since I'd been learning it mostly for my own entertainment I decided to turn my attention to some other new hotness (Rust, IIRC) rather than slog through increasingly more difficult and obscure (to me) features of the language with diminishing returns for my personal projects. Entertainment is maybe not the right word, though it was definitely entertaining. Learning Haskell was the beginning of a personal renaissance in my approach to programming, and as a self-taught programmer (and professional software engineer looking to expand my horizons) that was a huge deal.
- tome 7y ago> I felt that I'd reached a point of reasonable proficiency with the language Ah, well that puts quite a different spin on things!