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Thanks for writing about that experience, makes sense. My first to forays in the language ended the same way. I tried to do mainstream programming stuff in it b

Thanks for writing about that experience, makes sense. My first to forays in the language ended the same way. I tried to do mainstream programming stuff in it but realised I wasn't making much progress in first few days and eventually moved on.

epgui 4y ago
It sounds like you folks didn't give the language enough of a chance and may have felt the friction of trying to write Haskell in the style of another language. It takes a while to learn how to go with the grain, in any language. While I totally sympathize with this, I'm not sure it's a very good vantage point from which to judge a language.
- pdimitar 4y ago
  Which goes back to the root comment and the issue it raised: Where are the practical Haskell tutorials. No preaching, no "you're holding it wrong", ONLY this: "you need to handle arbitrarily nested JSON? here's how".
  - gilmi 4y ago
    - Learn Haskell by building a blog generator[0] (disclaimer: I wrote this) - Simple Haskell Handbook[1] - Haskell (Almost) Standard Libraries[2] - [0]: https://lhbg-book.link https://lhbg-book.link - [1]: https://marcosampellegrini.com/simple-haskell-book https://marcosampellegrini.com/simple-haskell-book - [2]: https://leanpub.com/haskell-stdlibs/ https://leanpub.com/haskell-stdlibs/
  - epgui 4y ago
    This is a pretty good resource, and there are many others: https://www.amazon.ca/Haskell-Depth-Vitaly-Bragilevsky/dp/161729540X/ https://www.amazon.ca/Haskell-Depth-Vitaly-Bragilevsky/dp/16... Learning an entirely new language is hard and requires patience and perseverance!