One Year In: A Beginner's Take on the Difficulties of Learning Haskell
summary
One year of learning Haskell leads to concrete outcomes not platitudes: an API translation layer is built to bridge an archaic DMS by reverse‑engineering SOAP and it runs in production; a chat bot natural‑language interface is implemented and exposes string/text and parsing pain points; heavy use of Template Haskell lenses prisms monad transformers and GHC extensions forces switching implicit semantics arrows to free arrows and unwrapping monad stacks; type‑level programming surfaces a serious bug that gets fixed.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:49My Background
- 1:50How to Learn Haskell
- 3:15My Journey
- 4:07Starting Out
- 6:29Roadblocks - Recursion
- 7:37Roadblocks-Language Extensions
- 10:26New Hire
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