State of the Haskell ecosystem

Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem by boothead on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:42AM (#10072399)

I think this is because the abstractions are so abstract. When functionality is glued together with very general combinators and operators there's not really much to grab hold of unless you understand the abstractions.

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Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem by QuantumRoar on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:43AM (#10073287)

Well said. What always saved me is that brave and devoted individuals wrote tutorials and published them to help me peel away the layers of abstractions. There's no way I could have done that on my own.

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Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem by boothead on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:52AM (#10073374)

Which is why I view haskell's community as one of its main, less tangible qualities. :-)

edit clarity - Apparently my brain is too Haskelled today for writing English

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Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem by Symmetry on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:24PM (#10074113)

Sometimes, but sometimes a function just has a type of String -> String with nothing besides the name to tell you what it does.

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