I tend to focus more on building things than the theory and hope that folks are seeing the practical side of programming in Haskell.
You can find a couple real-world examples here https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/examples.html
Fractal renderer: https://github.com/serprex/Fractaler Templates.hs implements a variety of fractals as pure functions & Fractaler.hs is the UI
Brainfuck interpreter: https://github.com/serprex/bfhs minibf.hs is half the size of bf.hs, but the latter is more optimized as it implements jump tables for [] instructions & combines consecutive <>+- & more. Tape implemented as a zipper. Fun part of implementation is that the interpreter is mostly a pure function building up an output string & returns that to the io interpreter when it needs input or escaping
It targets programmers that are new to the language, and focuses on the practice of writing Haskell to build projects. Specifically, a blog generator.
OverloadedStrings
NoImplicitPrelude
ImplicitParams
Rank2Types
DisambiguateRecordFields
NamedFieldPuns
DuplicateRecordFields
OverloadedLabels
FlexibleContexts
TypeSynonymInstances
FlexibleInstances
QuasiQuotes
TypeFamilies
PackageImports
ScopedTypeVariables
RecordWildCards
TypeApplications
DataKinds
InstanceSigs
DeriveGeneric
MultiParamTypeClasses
TypeOperators
DeriveDataTypeable
MultiWayIf
UndecidableInstances
BlockArguments
PartialTypeSignatures
LambdaCase
DefaultSignatures
EmptyDataDeriving
BangPatterns
BlockArguments
MultiWayIf
FunctionalDependencies
PartialTypeSignatures
StandaloneDeriving
DerivingViaFrom what I've touched of Haskell, I'd think e.g. OverloadedStrings makes Haskell simpler to use than leaving it out. (And OverloadedStrings certianly doesn't seem ego-inducing).
Simple Haskell's page on extensions also isn't advocating for anything too concrete. Just an emphasis on pragmatic, simple to maintain code.
IHP's landing page even claims "Don't worry, you don't need to know much about Haskell to get started, you'll learn it along the way". This seems to be in the spirit of simple Haskell, although I'd be curious to hear about what parts seem not-simple.
In general, I've only read over IHP code, but never used it myself, I'd be worried about the quality of GHC error messages for a Haskell novice with the amount of magic IHP is providing.
There's some nifty type-level programming going on in the background with IHP which works great when everything compiles, but can have confusing GHC error messages if you have an error.
I really like this test file the author linked to for a great example of what "real" haskell can look like.
https://github.com/Gizra/ihp-simple-seat-reservation/blob/ma...
I'm interested in other "pragmatic" haskell sources / tutorials that lose the ego / pretentiousness and demonstrate Getting Stuff Done™... any recommendations?