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by Leo_Verto 878 days ago
The fact that it's a purely functional programming language with lazy evaluation is really powerful but steepens the learning curve for devs who haven't worked with functional languages.

The stdlib is also pretty sparse, missing some commonly required functions.
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anentropic 878 days ago
> The fact that it's a purely functional programming language with lazy evaluation is really powerful but steepens the learning curve for devs who haven't worked with functional languages.

does it really though? what part do they struggle with?

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cannonpalms 878 days ago
IME engineers struggle with folds most.
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int_19h 878 days ago
> The stdlib is also pretty sparse, missing some commonly required functions.

This seems to be the general curse of template languages. For some reason, their authors have this near-religious belief in removing every "unneeded" feature, which in practice results in having to write 10 incomprehensible lines of code to do something that could be easily done in one line of readable code in a proper PL.

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