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		vojta_letal on Oct 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any ot... Scala has an awesome IDE support, familiar rich JVM ecosystem, familiar syntax, ability to ignore the fact that logging is a side effect... I had a hard time understanding the Haskell ecosystem, plus the syntax is just way too different and restrictive. For example the last tutorial I tried to follow recommend using nix package manager to install Haskell. I failled missereably, it just did not work out of the box.

agumonkey on Oct 6, 2019 [–]

I see, I had more luck using stack but I understand it was a matter of luck.

someone should make a haskell fiddle for newcomers

ps: I wouldn't think that syntax would matter that much, was Scala your first FP language ?

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