Yes, Haskell is hard for everyone. Maybe I can speak on behalf of the stupid majority, but (having spent quite some time trying to learn Haskell) perhaps many o

Yes, Haskell is hard for everyone. Maybe I can speak on behalf of the stupid majority, but (having spent quite some time trying to learn Haskell) perhaps many of us who have at one time or another taken an interest have at some point ceased to find the effort worthwhile? The most annoying thing is that there seems to be an implicit assumption from a sizable part of the Haskell crowd that Haskell is demonstrably the programming pinnacle toward which all serious coders should be aiming; those of us who fall short of this goal must therefore feel chastened and embarrassed at our obvious inferiority. Well, at some point when I was grinding through Real World Haskell, trying to build software that actually did something useful, I just reached the point where I simply couldn't be bothered any more. But more fundamentally than this, I no longer believed that Haskell was better than all the other languages out there (because I can accomplish so much more so much quicker with several other languages that I know). And this is the assumption; just hang out with the Haskell community to see this.