the best intro to writing Haskell for me was writing Elm. The best intro to writing Elm was writing pointfree Codewars kata solutions in JS using
with(require("ramda")) fn = pipe(…)
For those wondering `with` in JS is a bit like `extract` in PHP except it creates a new context right after itself rather than modify the context it finds itself in. It's super deprecated because it's inscrutable and silly except in this case and/or when you need to solve Codewars katas in a limited number of characters.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php
EDIT ramda is a nice utility library in JS that supports partial application of arguments in arbitrary order https://ramdajs.com/docs/#subtract
Eh. Elm has achieved quite a bit of success just by having good tooling and a good ecosystem. Says something about people's willingness to learn pure functional programming, if the situation is right.
> I find some code easier to express with procedural/mutable loops than recursion
This is usually a familiarity problem, IMO.
I often say: people think mastering Haskell is about mastering monads. But it's actually about mastering folds.