Haskell Learning Curve

Sounds like you just need more practice. Haskell is more expressive than most other languages and offers much more consistent and powerful abstractions. This does result in more productivity once the learning curve is overcome.

Notes about Haskell:It's strange, but Haskell is more difficult to read than write. This is because most code on e.g. Hackage uses some very complicated gymnastics involving Applicative, Arrows, or whatever. So it's hard to learn from other people's programs.Also, a warning: learning Haskell might screw with your ability to write code in other languages! It took me two weeks before I stopped making every line of Python a lambda.

The worst thing to do when learning Haskell is to think that you will be comfortable in just a week. Learning Haskell for most is like relearning to program. It takes time to build up intuition and understanding of the language. I know that it took me multiple tries at Haskell over a few months before it finally "clicked" for me and became comfortable to work in.

Amazing, thanks! It always amazes me how natural Haskell is for some people. Some seem to see the simplest solution with so little effort while I still struggle with almost embarrassingly simple things. I wish I would have picked up Haskell as my first language, instead my mind was poisoned by C...

Sorry, but that's nonsense, go and try Haskell for a year and you will have barely scratched the surface.

Haskell is less about the "language" and more about the mindset. You simply have to program in a very different way, and that is hard to rewire your brain to do this. Once you learn Haskell, you will program different in other languages as well, simply because you think differently.

I honestly don't get how people can claim that Haskell is unusually hard to learn. I started learning Haskell with zero functional programming experience, and after getting over that initial pure+functional learning curve (which took two or three weeks of casual learning), it was smooth sailing. Haskell is actually a very simple language compared to popular languages like python or C++; you just have to do a bit of thinking to get out of the procedural/imperative/impure mindset.<

Did you try Haskell?Knowing Haskell makes reading about Go a very underwhelming experience.

How difficult is it in your experience for developers to learn Haskell while on the job?

I was told to learn me a Haskell for great good. Is that not enough for people anymore?