If I had to choose the three big factors that contributed to my gradual loss of interest in Haskell, they were these:
* the stylistic neophilia that celebrates esoteric code but makes maintenance a chore
* the awkward tooling that makes working with Haskell in a day-to-day sense clunkier
* the constant changes that require sporadic but persistent attention and cause regular breakages
Valid points. Back in 2010-2012, I spent a lot of time learning Haskell. The language itself is great, but the documentation and tooling was challenging to work with. The community went from Cabal (and the infamous Cabal hell) to Stack, and back to Cabal. Overall, the situation has improved.
On the other hand, other programming languages have incorporated elements of functional programming. Take Java, for instance. It has added features like Streams, functions, lambdas, algebraic data types, records, and pattern matching. While Java's syntax isn't as elegant as Haskell's, it does include the fundamental concepts of functional programming.
* the stylistic neophilia that celebrates esoteric code but makes maintenance a chore
* the awkward tooling that makes working with Haskell in a day-to-day sense clunkier
* the constant changes that require sporadic but persistent attention and cause regular breakages
Valid points. Back in 2010-2012, I spent a lot of time learning Haskell. The language itself is great, but the documentation and tooling was challenging to work with. The community went from Cabal (and the infamous Cabal hell) to Stack, and back to Cabal. Overall, the situation has improved.
On the other hand, other programming languages have incorporated elements of functional programming. Take Java, for instance. It has added features like Streams, functions, lambdas, algebraic data types, records, and pattern matching. While Java's syntax isn't as elegant as Haskell's, it does include the fundamental concepts of functional programming.