More accurately: Haskell is particularly hard for a procedural programmer to learn in comparison to a new procedural language and the time spent learning prior to being as productive may be (from my experience) 30x.
IMO, once learned, the type checking is so helpful, everything else seems hard.
Also, learning the language is only half the battle as it’s much more difficult to establish for yourself good practices for common use cases like app development. You’ll find plenty of people using FP for specialized stuff that’s not relevant to the average working programmer. In looking for advice you may stumble across the promotion of peoples’ impractical pet projects, and without experience you won’t know it.
If you can budget the time to learn the language and then build a couple poorly structured apps that you’ll come to hate, expect very smooth sailing after.
More accurately: Haskell is particularly hard for a procedural programmer to learn in comparison to a new procedural language and the time spent learning prior to being as productive may be (from my experience) 30x.
IMO, once learned, the type checking is so helpful, everything else seems hard.
Also, learning the language is only half the battle as it’s much more difficult to establish for yourself good practices for common use cases like app development. You’ll find plenty of people using FP for specialized stuff that’s not relevant to the average working programmer. In looking for advice you may stumble across the promotion of peoples’ impractical pet projects, and without experience you won’t know it.
If you can budget the time to learn the language and then build a couple poorly structured apps that you’ll come to hate, expect very smooth sailing after.