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by JoelMcCracken 1465 days ago
> compelling framework

Sadly no. There are contenders for this that have arisen over the years, but we don’t have a RoR for Haskell yet.

If you’re curious, here is a talk that goes into this problem. It’s very accessible IMO. https://youtu.be/fNpsgTIpODA

To be honest, the compelling reason to learn Haskell for me was so I could engage with various academic literature. I just kept running into things I didn’t understand which were tangential to the topic of the paper, and it seemed like the most straightforward way to solve this was to start with learning Haskell. Once I learned it, I realized I was wrong in my biases, and Haskell is a fantastic tool for normal programming, with some important caveats.