| > I have been wondering if I should start moving toward Haskell or Erlang/Elixir. So far, I've spend much more time with Erlang and Elixir and I'm liking it. I wouldn't know about that, I only took a glance at Erlang, didn't really like the syntax but Elixir seems really pretty (Rubyist speaking of course ;)). I'm also a bit put off by how Erlang has distributedness integrated in its language, I didn't really try it out so take this with a grain of salt, but I have the feeling that it makes it more of a domain specific language, and it perhaps would be in the way of generic programming. I also had to deal a lot with a misbehaving RabbitMQ at work, so I might have channeled my incompetence into a opinion of Erlang :P > What has given you grief on the Haskell side? Well, both web projects I did using the Scotty framework, which I adore. The first was a web adaptation of a school project, you can take a look here[0], I like that a lot. But the second project was a docker container provisioning tool, and it had to do a bunch of stream processing and such. It's not that the libraries are bad, but there's a lot of research being done and there's 5 different popular I/O stream libraries, with various amounts of super high level abstractions, it just slowed me down a lot having to research all of it and dealing with some really high level Haskell. That's one down side of Haskell. There's an easy way to do things, with nice pure functions and a I/O monad here and there. And there's the hard way of Haskell with monad transformers and generic type classes and what have you. You can easily avoid the hard stuff, but if you get sucked in you'll feel like a total dumbass and it'll cost you time and motivation :P > If nothing else, this conversation was well worth it just for that...thanks :) No problem, thanks for making me back up my ludicrous opinions ;) 0] https://github.com/tinco/Ergo/blob/master/scotty.hs |