I don't know what trouble you ran into. It's not difficult to write a web app in Haskell, nor was it seven years ago. All the major frameworks had been establis

I don't know what trouble you ran into. It's not difficult to write a web app in Haskell, nor was it seven years ago. All the major frameworks had been established by then. But at the same time I don't want to dismiss your difficulties. Whatever was going on clearly left a scar. I will say there's no such thing as a programmer who can't learn Haskell and be productive in it. It's not fundamentally more difficult than any other language. It's just that you have to learn to program more or less from scratch again. That initial learning curve was more work than I'd been through to learn a programming language in 25 years, when I first learned Haskell. Of course, there's definitely such a thing as a programmer who won't like Haskell even after learning it. It's not for everyone. But neither is perl, or c, or python, or java, or....