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Using Haskell for a web-project is mindbogglingly insane in my opinion. Not sure how that happened. Haskell maybe powerful, but it's learning curve is monumental for what it's being used for.

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Are you an experienced Haskeller talking from a position of knowledge or just a mindless naysayer?

I don't mean this as an appeal to authority or ad hominem argument, by the way. There's no substance in your comment, so I'm more trying to understand the process of coming to your conclusion there.

As someone who has only studied HTML, CSS, and Haskell, I have no perspective myself about the learning curve issues in this case. But I have yet to hear strong critique of Haskell (even for web) from anyone who is a Haskeller. Seems everyone who uses Haskell thinks it's great — which cannot be said for common web languages like PHP or JavaScript. Again, I don't have a real perspective myself, so I dunno…

"Mindless" is quite possibly too harsh. Someone might have less knowledge than "an experienced Haskeller" and still have given it consideration and be operating still from some knowledge. While I (clearly) disagree with the conclusion the parent commenter has drawn, conclusions can be wrong without the reasoning being "mindless".

I wasn't saying the poster was mindless, I was asking if they made their comment mindlessly. I don't yet know anything to make a conclusion about whether they were or weren't mindless in making that comment.

I don't know what to tell you. It's generally been a good experience so far. Some interested developers have certainly been less able to get involved, but some capable developers have also been more interested. The Haskell web ecosystem has been doing some great things.

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