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by tome 1321 days ago
> I tried to get into strongly typed functional programming a bit, but realised after a couple of years doing Haskell that it just swaps one set of problems for another.

Would love to know what problems you encountered that are intrinsic to Haskell.

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Laziness principally. In my opinion, laziness is as difficult as managing pointers in C++. Laziness makes memory usage of your program difficult to reason about as it becomes large.
Interesting, thanks.