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#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins

Happy Path Programming

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Haskell

There's a package called Lens, which goes a bit crazy with custom glyph operators and sometimes looks a bit like Perl to me. When I've worked on Haskell projects, I've had a rule that we don't use those operators, but you can. So what would you say is the easiest way for beginners to start digging into Haskell if they want to? If you want to go straight to Haskell, there's a tool called Stack, which is like a build tool package manager project creator all in one. It's easy to get started with and it will take you all the way up to production projects. The other alternative route is you could look into Elm, which doesn't do everything that

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