The author's struggles with Haskell resonate. I suspect it's just a very hard language to learn. I've given up attempting to learn it at least twice now. I too

The author's struggles with Haskell resonate. I suspect it's just a very hard language to learn. I've given up attempting to learn it at least twice now. I took Martin Odersky's Scala MOOC sometime around 2012-2014 and it was easy. It just made sense and the IDE experience was nice. I would recommend it to anyone who uses C# or Java and wants to learn FP. Although after 8 years I don't know if it's still as good, or if something better has come along. Either way, the course is still available: https://www.coursera.org/learn/scala-functional-programming https://www.coursera.org/learn/scala-functional-programming Next I worked through SICP and that was the best CS book I've read, although significantly more difficult than the Scala course.