> In particular the common abstractions (Monad, Applicative, Functor) are used very differently in different libraries (everyone seems to want to write her own

> In particular the common abstractions (Monad, Applicative, Functor) are used very differently in different libraries (everyone seems to want to write her own DSL), so it's hard to get comfortable with third party libraries. This is the opposite of my experience as a professional of many years. Most Haskellers I know think that this thing you're complaining about is extremely helpful, actually. The fact that every library gives you shared instances for wildly different things makes them easier to use. If you give me an Applicative instance, I'll be able to use it in so many ways. It's a shared abstraction language. No other PL compares. At the end of the day, none of the languages you mention come close to being able build complicated programs out of smaller ones like Haskell can. It's all gunk, inherently. I use my brain to write all those languages in an exhausting way. I barely do hard thinking with Haskell ever. Whether it be gamedev, web services, parsers .. I thank god every day I don't have to live like a normal programmer. My mind would be so tired.