It is a shame that the article almost completely ignores the issue of the tooling. I particularly find the attitude in the following paragraph offensively academically true:
All mainstream, general purpose programming languages are (basically) Turing-complete, and therefore any programme you can write in one you can, in fact, write in another. There is a computational equivalence between them. The main differences are instead in the expressiveness of the languages, the guardrails they give you, and their performance characteristics (although this is possibly more of a runtime/compiler implementation question).
I decided to have a go at learning the basics of Haskell and the first error I got immediately phased me because it reminded me of unhelpful compilers of the 80s. I have bashed my head against different languages and poor tooling enough times to know I can learn, but I've also done it enough times that I am unwilling to masochistically force myself through that gauntlet unless I have a very good reason to do so. The "joy" of learning is absent with unfriendly tools.
The syntax summary in the article is really good. Short and clear.
The syntax summary in the article is really good. Short and clear.