[quickthrower2]

A big shout here for Elm.

Compared to Haskell it has fewer features and is much simpler. Think of it as kind of a subset, but with nicer record syntax and error messages, and tightly coupled to the web.

The upside is you can learn it quick and understand other people's code easily. This makes it more fun to use and feel more productive. There is also a different culture - in Haskell things like template Haskell and Lenses are fairly widely used, but although you can in theory do some Lens stuff in Elm, no one actually does. To give you an idea, as a beginner your introduction to Lenses is this beast http://i.imgur.com/ALlbPRa.png. So that's probably an entire weekend to get your head around. (Big respect to Edward Knett though for creating this and dozens of other libraries) You can get your head around all of Elm in that time.

The downside is that you end up with more boilerplate than Haskell. For example there is no monad typeclass, so you have multiple definitions of "andThen" whereas Haskell you can always reach for the generic >>=

I'm working on a side project and having a lot of fun in Elm