At least Haskell has the decency to label these features explicitly. Folks tend to exclude and create style guides for their language.

I have made jokes and complaints you can find in my comment history on this very site about it.īut I don't think this is very different from C# or C++.

I absolutely agree it can be super irritating when you find a new extension that radically changes syntax. Now, you have to understand at least 20 language extensions which you find randomly at the top of files. You're now ready to build toy projects.īut, even if you finish the Haskell Book( ), which is like 1300 pages, you're still going to be unable to contribute to a serious code base. Once you put something into a side-effect bubble (IO), you cannot take it out, so you're obligated to work inside of that bubble. Sure, it's not THAT difficult to get a basic understanding until you get to the usual Functor, Applicative, Monad stuff, which you can understand if you imagine them as context bubbles.

The biggest lie about Haskell is that it's easy to learn.

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