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I learned Haskell for a year and went into various books. After that I tried to contribute to a relatively simple open source projects and I realized the real world Haskell is so different than books, then I got discouraged and stop. These days I wanted to pick up Haskell back again, is there any updated resource you can recommend for doing real world Haskell?

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>for doing real world Haskell?

Haven't read it but there's a book called "Real World Haskell", which I thought was funny considering your question. Right now I'm really enjoying "Functional Design and Architecture"[1] by Alexander Granin (it does assume you've already got some experience). In addition, make sure to revisit Stephen Diehls "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell"[2].

[1] https://leanpub.com/functional-design-and-architecture [2] http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

The book "Real World Haskell" is outdated.

I'll take a look at that functional design and architecture. THanks.

I'm currently going through Haskell Programming From First Principles (https://haskellbook.com/) and am liking it a lot. It's only been a few weeks so I can't say for sure, but it seems like it's comprehensive enough (1200+ pages) where you'd pick up what you need for real world stuff. To some extent at least; in practice there's probably no substitute for just getting real world experience.

PS: Hi Christian! You were a TA when I was a student at Fullstack :)

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