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Re:8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production ... by skydhash on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:48AM (#42307429)
When you start working in a new language, the best thing to do is to get a book and familiarize yourself with any constructs or patterns you are not familiar with. Expecting things to be similar to what you’re used to (which lower the learning curve) is a fool’s errand.
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Re:8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production ... by t-writescode on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @02:21PM (#42310124)
To learn a new language, you need a reason to learn that new language and you need sufficient drive to go through with it.

Having familiar constructs not only make it easier to code-switch between languages (people that work on multi-language projects know that pain pretty well), but also decreases the barrier to entry to the language in the first place.

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