Haskell&#x27;s learning curve is certainly steeper than other popular general programming languages. But my view on that is best explained with an analogy: calculus is certainly harder to learn than arithmetic approximations but once learned, the complexity of calculus is factored out of all the problems suited for solving with it. Haskell is excellently suited for solving extremely complex problems and why it&#x27;s so desirable for concurrency and parallelism tasks.<p>On your second point, while it seems nice to have Haskell features slowly percolate into other languages, I urge caution in thinking that&#x27;s a panacea for not learning more complex languages. Haskell is greater than the sum of all it&#x27;s features. It&#x27;s power comes from the combination of everything working together in a very well thought-out way.<p>So I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree with your tone, just some additional commentary from someone who knows C++, Python, Java, and Haskell equally well (and perhaps equally bad ;) ).