I spent years wasting time on Haskell and wouldn’t recommend it unless you find joy in the purely academic. I’ve never found a practical application for my knowledge and no one has ever paid me to write it. I suppose if I were willing to take a huge pay cut I could have found something, but you’re far better off completely mastering Go, C++, Python, gaining systems knowledge, etc. which people will pay you good money for. The “it teaches you to think a certain way” is IMO a really weak argument. It’s extremely difficult to master one language and you’re far better off going deep in something useful than exposing yourself at a surface level to every technology and paradigm.
> I spent years wasting time on Haskell and wouldn’t recommend it unless you find joy in the purely academic.
You must have chose to do academic things then because I was able to use it for simple real world applications the first day.
> The “it teaches you to think a certain way” is IMO a really weak argument
Not when it can be used with all other languages.
> no one has ever paid me to write it. I suppose if I were willing to take a huge pay cut I could have found something,
I got a pay raise and suspect many others would as well.
> I was able to use it for simple real world applications the first day.
- https://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html
- https://morpheusgraphql.com/
- https://higherkindness.io/mu-haskell/
- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
- https://postgrest.org/en/stable/
- https://github.com/jgm/gitit
- https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
- https://github.com/IHaskell/IHaskell
- https://tweag.github.io/HaskellR/ (https://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/cartography...)
The list can go on, it really depends on what level of "real-worldness" you consider to be real.