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by fredrikholm 609 days ago
> I think I’m too dumb to learn Haskell though lol.

I felt the same way, a lot of people feel that way.

This is in part because FP is difficult, typed FP is difficult, and Haskell is difficult. All by themselves. They do get easier once you intuit more and more FP in general I'd say.

Then there's also a phenomena described in the Haskell Pyramid[0] where it sometimes appears more difficult than it really is.

Like a lot of things, actually building something gets you a long way, esp. with the advent of chat AIs as it's comparatively easy to go back an fourth and learn little by little.

[0] https://patrickmn.com/software/the-haskell-pyramid/