Disclosure: using JS for UI work, not nuclear reactor controls. Hate reading reams of verbose, flabby, painfully explicit, long, statically typed (often believed to be "self documenting", as well), code. Prefer short, intuitive code (and LESS of it, but with explanations of context and "why") for non safety critical work.
Haskell's syntax is very terse, but Haskell codebases can still be more verbose than JavaScript ones because the type system actually makes you think about things like error states. JavaScript is definitely more verbose when you write code for all paths and not just the happy one, but doing so seems far less common in practice than it ought to be.
Another angle on the parent comment is that Roboprog hasn't been exposed to statically-typed languages with good inference. It sounds like they're mostly complaining about type annotations, but at least in Haskell you can get quite far without having to annotate anything.
