Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language
The biggest lie about Haskell is that it's easy to learn. No it's not, and I do use it at work. Sure, it's not THAT difficult to get a basic understanding until you get to the usual Functor, Applicative, Monad stuff, which you can understand if you imagine them as context bubbles. Once you put something into a side-effect bubble (IO), you cannot take it out, so you're obligated to work inside of that bubble. This analogy should get you far enough. You're now ready to build toy projects.<p>But, even if you finish the Haskell Book(<a href="http://haskellbook.com" rel="nofollow">http://haskellbook.com</a>), which is like 1300 pages, you're still going to be unable to contribute to a serious code base. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. Now, you have to understand at least 20 language extensions which you find randomly at the top of files {-# LANGUAGE ExtensionHere #-}. Now you have to understand how to really structure a program as either a stack of monad transformers, or free monads or anything else. Then you get into concurrency and to do that you have to understand how Haskell actually works, what non-strict computation does etc. etc. Otherwise you're going to get some nasty behaviour.<p>You think I'm done? Let's get to Lens. You can use Lens after a relatively short time of reading the docs. But to understand Lens? Very few people actually understand Lens.<p>Don't get me wrong, Haskell has spoiled me, and I don't really want to touch any other language (I still like Clojure, Rust, Python, Erlang). Once you get past that the language is a joy to use.