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Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by ruleabidinguser on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:52AM (#13906560)
>It is, I think, going to be very difficult to enjoy writing code in a less powerful language when you are exposed to languages that hold awesome power.

As someone whos written code in Haskell (even some medium sized programs) and moved on just fine, no.

Frankly, Haskell can be an excercise in frustration.

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Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by jwdunne on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:24AM (#13906675)
It depends, I imagine, on how much you enjoy working with it. If it was so painful, I think moving to another language would be refreshing as opposed to depressing.
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Re:Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016) by mathw on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:25AM (#13912380)
I'd concur. It's mostly around tooling for me (and Stack has helped here) but whenever I pick up Haskell for an out-of-work project now I end up putting it down again. I find Rust increasingly pleasing, although the lack of constraints on side effects is frustrating compared to Haskell's purity.
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