> I think the main difficulty is getting along with recursion meh, recursion is easy. Recursion is mainstream. It _began_ as a way to fake a loop without mutat

> I think the main difficulty is getting along with recursion meh, recursion is easy. Recursion is mainstream. It _began_ as a way to fake a loop without mutation, but I struggle now to remember a mainstream language without it. The hardest part is all the new patterns you have to grok, it's like learning programming again from a blank slate, because it kinda is. It doesn't get any easier when Haskell decides it needs 7 new syntaxes and someone rushes to compose them all in one line.