I have always found the Haskell community to be very friendly to newbies. They have a great channel on freenode. However I do agree that their can be a lot of

I have always found the Haskell community to be very friendly to newbies. They have a great channel on freenode. However I do agree that their can be a lot of arrogance in the FP world. This is actually true of quite a few languages though. C (i.e. kernel) devs can be complete assholes towards people wanting to learn but are finding searching for things frustrating. On the flip side the C and C++ communities, especially /r/cpp, /r/c_programming on reddit[1], are fantastic. Very newbie friendly with a lot of expertise there. Stephan T. Lavavej (/u/STL), the Microsoft STL maintainer, is very active on /r/cpp and responds to many questions asked of him. [1] Also check out /r/cplusplus, /r/c_language, /r/cprogramming and /r/cprog