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by kreetx 3155 days ago
No, not "thinks it's clever", but overly clever, yes, often.
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I tend to ignore 99% of the clever haskell stuff and get by just fine in Haskell.

I keep learning about stuff like GADTs and whatnot, but they're more like the top of the tool drawer special tools than the ones you break out every day.

I think people learning/using haskell tend to go for crazy generalized code first, versus what gets me to a minimal working thing that I can expand/change out later.

Or I just suck at haskell, probably a little from column a and b, for me more sucking at haskell than anything.

> Or I just suck at haskell

You suck at Haskell about as much as Don Stewart :) In this talk he describes how he builds large software systems in Haskell and eschews complicated type system features

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9098-haskell-in-the-lar...

Good to know i'm in good company then. :)