> What does Haskell have? It has Req (and a bunch of other also rans), and the docs for Req are atrocious, spanning a staggering 1 (one) example and then a mean

> What does Haskell have? It has Req (and a bunch of other also rans), and the docs for Req are atrocious, spanning a staggering 1 (one) example and then a meandering essay on the deficiency of other Haskell HTTP clients. It's not good enough. For HTTP request library, most would recommend Wreq. Being most popular, the documentation is really good I might say with most used API have their own example [1]. You can also easily find great tutorial on the net, like http://www.serpentine.com/wreq/tutorial.html http://www.serpentine.com/wreq/tutorial.html for example. Honestly I never use Req myself and looking at the documentation myself, even though I don't it's lacking, I think it's not really geared toward Haskell beginners so maybe you have a point there. As a novice Haskell programer who only use it for side projects, I don't think the documentation is that bad and it's only getting better. Most popular libraries like database clients and web frameworks have intensive documentation and tutorial nowadays. I agree with you for the state of IDE support, it leaves something to be desired. But people are still working on it[2]. For now I mostly use vim with help of linter and formatter. The great thing about good type system is, you can still do much even without great IDE support. Haskell already have working and great REPL support that make development a breeze so it helped. I'll still take Haskell over OCaml or Scala anyday. Rust is great and I love it so much that it's my go to language for something system programming or networking related, but I don't think it's a good match if you want to learn functional programming. [1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wreq-0.5.3.2/docs/Network-Wreq.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wreq-0.5.3.2/docs/Networ... [2] https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server