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Re:Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres by robotmay on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:53PM (#20064867)
I've said it a few times on HN in the past but Haskell is by far and away the hardest language I've tried to learn. I have no formal grounding in maths/CS and I think a lot of the people who enjoy it really struggle to communicate with those of us who don't come from that sort of background.

In contrast I picked up Rust and Elixir in a couple of weeks apiece, so I don't feel like I'm particularly dense; I just suspect that it needs a certain way of thinking to get the best from Haskell :)

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Re:Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres by andy_ppp on Friday May 31, 2019 @08:16PM (#20066234)
I’m along the same opinions, if there was a language as complex as Haskell that gave more consideration to beginners above terseness [naming concepts better] I’d be able to accept more of it. The guy next to me is determined to hatchet in all of the functional paradigms into Typescript and he gets to decide this. I can’t help think you’re average JS dev is going to look at Maybe.may2 and be completely bemused...
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