[yakshaving_jgt]

Strange. I spend the vast majority of my time writing code that does something interesting/useful. In fact, it puts food on the table and a roof over the heads of several families.

The reason why I’ve given up my own time to write some blog posts (apart from it just being an occasional pastime), is that everyone complains that Haskell doesn’t have enough documentation or tutorials.

Damned if we do; damned if we don’t.

[tome]

* "Haskellers write to much code but don't explain the language. They should write tutorials."

* "Haskellers just write tutorials but there's no good practical code."

* "Haskell will never catch on because it's too hard. They think it's easy but that's just because they're geniuses."

* "Haskellers are obnoxious and condescending. The language is easy but they want to pretend it makes them special and clever."

* "The Haskell type checker only checks really simple properties that are easy to prove by hand"

* "Haskell doesn't come with tooling that automate refactorings that are easy to make by hand"

The list of contradictory complaints goes on ...

[verttii]

We absolutely need more hands-on Haskell tutorials and blogs. I've been massively more productive with Haskell with the help of just a few well written blogs that are full of tutorial posts.

We got a lot of books detailing various type theories, algorithmic nuances and so on in Haskell, but very little resources to actually help anyone get off the ground with practical web development.

[tome]

> I've been massively more productive with Haskell with the help of just a few well written blogs that are full of tutorial posts.

Could you share some examples? It's probably a good idea to promote useful content!

[verttii]

The best resource for me has been Matt Parsons' blog: https://www.parsonsmatt.org/