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My experience is that it is really difficult to estimate runtime performance and memory requirements of Haskell programs. Not that it is impossible, but the straight-forward solutions often blow up in memory.

Furthermore libraries vary immensely in quality and for beginners it is hard to pick the right one for your job. Unfortunately most of them are also documented quite ... sparse.

It is also non-trivial to get a good web-stack up and running and there are many competing solutions using different architectures and with a different stance on type-safety. Their poor performance in benchmarks like https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ does not help either.

I don't want to dismiss Haskell and love the idea of FP especially using advanced type systems to get rid of possible bugs before runtime, but using it for specific tasks is not always straight-forward compared to more established languages.




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