There is no real focus on theory in the language itself, but a significant part of the community, indeed, enjoys it. For balance, here's another common opinion

There is no real focus on theory in the language itself, but a significant part of the community, indeed, enjoys it. For balance, here's another common opinion about tutorials: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/#eightfold-path-to-monad-satori http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/#eightfold-path-to-monad-sa... > [...] > Read the monad definitions. > Use monads in real code. > Don’t write monad-analogy tutorials. In the end, the two opinions about learning monads coexist, and people have done fine following either way.