Debunking Haskell Myths and Stereotypes

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Haskell is covered with myths and stereotypes, such as “You need a PhD to do Haskell” or “Haskell is only good for writing compilers”. These are silly and not true. Let’s debunk most common ones.

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💡 References and links

* IHP web framework: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/

* Yesod web framework: https://www.yesodweb.com/

* Servant library: https://docs.servant.dev/en/stable/

* State of the Haskell ecosystem: https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-...

* A List of companies that use Haskell: https://github.com/erkmos/haskell-com...

* Haskell in production: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-p...

* Haskell in Enterprise: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-e...

* High-Performance Haskell:   / highperformance_haskell  

* What I love about the Haskell community: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/what-...

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0:00 Speed-run
0:29 Haskell is only for academics
1:49 You need to know category theory
2:51 You have to learn about monads ASAP
4:08 You can’t do anything “useful” cause there are no side-effects
5:21 Haskell isn’t suitable for web development
6:42 There are no libraries
7:34 The Haskell tooling is very bad
8:02 Performance is very bad
9:01 Toxic / ivory-tower community