Before my rant: I think the Haskell community is incredibly nice. It is the most helpful and brilliant group of people I have interacted with in my life.
Rant:
Yes, I have spent a while getting up to speed with Haskell. I think it has definitely made me a better programmer to learn, but I really don't like how quickly everything seems to go in the deep end.
The need for the 'right' abstraction and 'good enough' stuff like Cabal really irritates me. Cabal is especially hurtful to the community growing. I think there needs to be a much bigger investment in Nix, that is an absolutely amazing project that barely gets the attention it deserves.
Another thing that really makes me not want to invest time in Haskell is how quickly code starts to depend on language addons. I think that idea can be done well, like in Racket, but for Haskell it really seems like a scary way of bandaging the standard.
What do you mean by bandaging the standard? And why are extensions scary?
In general none of the extensions change the behaviour of valid "standard haskell" (beyond adding a small handfull of new keywords, rendering those words illegal as variable names). So calling it "bandaging the standard" seems a bit harsh/odd.
I think extensions are a nice way of keeping the language moving forward without being slowed down by the standardisation process. The standard can then catch up in its own time.
Rant:
Yes, I have spent a while getting up to speed with Haskell. I think it has definitely made me a better programmer to learn, but I really don't like how quickly everything seems to go in the deep end.
The need for the 'right' abstraction and 'good enough' stuff like Cabal really irritates me. Cabal is especially hurtful to the community growing. I think there needs to be a much bigger investment in Nix, that is an absolutely amazing project that barely gets the attention it deserves.
Another thing that really makes me not want to invest time in Haskell is how quickly code starts to depend on language addons. I think that idea can be done well, like in Racket, but for Haskell it really seems like a scary way of bandaging the standard.