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  • I’m not entirely sure what the Haskell comment is supposed to mean. Just that it would be cool? Or that it would be hard?

    Because if it’s the latter, that’s just really not true. Haskell’s quite well-suited to writing web servers and has many high-quality libraries for it. I’d actually argue that it’s one of the best options for it in 2025. I write Haskell professionally developing web servers we use for our web and mobile apps. We have about 0.5 million lines of Haskell in production (and given how terse Haskell is, you could expect that size to be at least double were it written in an imperative language).




  • I mean, it explains things at length, but it’s all fairly accurate.

    As a senior engineers writing Haskell professionally for a number of years, I’ve found it much simpler to teach about Monads after having taught about Functors and Applicatives first, because there’s a very natural, intuitive progression, and because most people already have an intuitive grasp of Functors because map is cribbed so commonly in other programming languages. I’ve used this approach successfully to teach them to people completely new to Haskell in a fairly short amount of time.