It's so unfortunate they decided to go with the Clojure/Haskell type syntax, as opposed to something friendlier like Elixir. A lot of people will not even try this language as a result. :(
Personally I found Unison easy to pick up the basics for despite being unfamiliar with Haskell beforehand (although underlying ideas of how to structure things took a bit of time for me to figure out).