&gt; the mistakes should be easy to fix and minimize the time you&#x27;re spending fighting with the type system<p>In Haskell you don&#x27;t fight the type system.  It fights your bugs.<p>[Yes, yes, this isn&#x27;t an absolute truth, but it is a relative truth when the point of reference is C++&#x27;s, or even Java&#x27;s, type system.]