Missing the point of loose languages

Posted Dec 17, 2021 16:57 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Missing the point of loose languages by tnoo
Parent article: Wrangling the typing PEPs

> Why not use Haskell right away?

My understanding is that a lot of people who love static typing etc. still bounce off of Haskell.

(Partly because a lot of the literature around Haskell has a reputation for using terminology that even many CS graduates are unfamiliar with.)

Missing the point of loose languages

Posted Dec 19, 2021 10:15 UTC (Sun) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Haskell is one of these "you need to wrap your head around these new concepts, otherwise you'll feel like bashing your noggin against a brick wall is the saner option when you actually start coding in it" languages.

That takes more up-front time and effort than most people want to spend. Plus everybody else in your team needs to do the same thing.

I was looking into using Elm (a Haskell-ish language for client-side web programming; transpiles to Javascript of course) recently. Great idea, but where do I get the month that's not in the calendar from, so that I can be up to speed on it?