In another life I will be a Haskell programmer
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I've written low thousands of lines of Haskell. Similar to mikojan, I love Haskell in theory, but ended up not enjoying it as much in practice.
1. The multitude of string-y types. I end up converting between String, Text, Lazy Text, ByteString, Lazy ByteString, and I forget what else. Each library wants me to pass in a specific string type, and each other library returns a different string type. LLMs are good at this, also for a while I had a ton of helper functions to convert between any two string types. Still, perhaps there's a better way?
2. The error messages. I come from Elm, so I'm spoiled. Yes, I understand a language with HKTs will never have as nice error messages. Yes, LLMs are pretty good at explaining GHC error messages.
3. The stdlib. Haskell gets a lot of credit for safety, but a `head` blows up instead of returning a `Maybe`. I know there are other - safer - preludes, but I don't know how to choose between them. I don't know how using a different prelude would impact my projects.
I feel like my next step is either towards Idris, with its polished standard library (and dependent types baked into the language!), or towards something simpler and more Elm-like (Gleam perhaps, or Roc). But if you can sell me on Haskell, I'm all ears!