> you have this language which offers you a million handy little tricks which seem very useful for all kinds of little niche problems. The focus should be on

> you have this language which offers you a million handy little tricks which seem very useful for all kinds of little niche problems. The focus should be on the core abstractions like Functor, Monad, Monoid, Applicative, etc that are sound, non-leaky, universal abstractions that are useful for all kinds of little niche problems. > The boring and common sense approach would be not to use them, because it would give your colleagues too many headaches to figure out what they are and why you chose to use them. But in practice the temptation is often too strong. The boring Haskell approach you describe should include taking advantage of those core abstractions. If your coworkers don't get them, they should learn the core abstractions and how to use them.