Same for me - I used Haskell and Scala as my primary two languages for over 6 years. In retrospect I question whether many of the stated benefits of Haskell are

Same for me - I used Haskell and Scala as my primary two languages for over 6 years. In retrospect I question whether many of the stated benefits of Haskell are even benefits at all. In terms of reducing development time or cost, reducing defects, improving design, or really improving any business outcomes whatsoever, Haskell showed no success, only failure. How could that be in contrast to “ugly” and “complex” languages like Java and C++, or free for all languages like Python and Node js? The reason is simple: 1. imperative structure is actually clearer and easier to understand, easily amenable to all the upsides of function-oriented programming with far fewer downsides. 2. removing whole categories of bugs through compilation and type system patterns is a hugely overrated waste of time. Lightweight unit tests get you 99% of the way there with far less rigid design commitment 3. safety and correctness are resources just like memory or runtime complexity, not absolutes. Being able to tradeoff safety against other concerns, at a moment’s notice, deep in the guts of a large system, is one of the most critical requirements of business software 4. Premature abstraction costs you way more in pure functional languages than most other imperative or OO situations.