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I like statically typed functional languages but I'm interested in understanding why people dislike them.



I write Haskell currently, but have used Clojure in the past. I find Haskell to be superior (static typing being one reason) however it takes more persistence and effort in the beginning to get used to Haskell.

I'd recommend that people start with something "easy" like Elm, and then transition to Haskell via frameworks like Miso or Reflex. That's exactly what I did.

This project of mine used to be in Elm & Go, but now uses Haskell throughout: https://github.com/srid/slownews




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