The things that keep me from using Haskell aren’t the functional bits but the overall complexity of everything. There are apparently several build tools, preludes, compiler extensions, string types, etc and figuring out when to use which is a major pain. And to top it all off, there’s the tediousness of the syntax, the pervasive use of symbol identifiers, and the general preference for code-golf programming vs readable programming. And THEN there is the tedium of the functional purity.

I really, really want to use Haskell because it’s type system seems neat in general, but the type system doesn’t justify all of the tedium. Go definitely loses on type system, but it wins in many of these other areas and so the trade offs are just better.