Yes, it's definitely much easier to get up and running with Java than it is with Haskell. This includes everything from setting up the JDK, setting up your IDE, to building and deploying your applications.
If I had to choose the three big factors that contributed to my gradual loss of interest in Haskell, they were these:
* the stylistic neophilia that celebrates esoteric code but makes maintenance a chore
* the awkward tooling that makes working with Haskell in a day-to-day sense clunkier
* the constant changes that require sporadic but persistent attention and cause regular breakages
Valid points. Back in 2010-2012, I spent a lot of time learning Haskell. The language itself is great, but the documentation and tooling was challenging to work with. The community went from Cabal (and the infamous Cabal hell) to Stack, and back to Cabal. Overall, the situation has improved.
On the other hand, other programming languages have incorporated elements of functional programming. Take Java, for instance. It has added features like Streams, functions, lambdas, algebraic data types, records, and pattern matching. While Java's syntax isn't as elegant as Haskell's, it does include the fundamental concepts of functional programming.
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I'm just a software engineer here but posting this because I want good co-workers.
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Really? I'm a self taught programmer, and one the best MOOC courses I took was How to Code taught by Gregor Kiczales.[^1] I believe it's based on HtDP. I thought it was great experience. Although, I did no know a little Python coming in.
I was just reading a study that said: "Developers do not become fluent for at least three years in large projects."[^1] Which is sad cause I'm one of those people that like to master their work, but it feels unfair if your making less than others who just joined.
I'm looking forward to the full implmentation of C++20. I'm just a junior programmer, but I've just started playing around with modern C++ and it feels all more safe than I was initially planning. I was expecting more undefinded behaviour and memory leaks. Working in C++, at least for small scripts, didn't feel much more burdensome than Python.
Wouldn't this be something similiar to Monads? I remember someone gave a talk and described Monads as "worlds". (I forgot which video it was). So a function goes into a "world" does all it's stuff, then it exits and comes down.
I think that's taking the extreme end. Couldn't someone use a larger framework, for example Spring? It's pretty productive with Spring boot, but also large enough that you can expand for your use case. I'm not advocating for Spring per se, as I think .Net core is equivalent.
Yes, and it's difficult to understand the tradeoffs without investing time in a framework. There are a lot of unknown unknowns, both in terms of the market fit and the framework. It's hard to know starting off what "situations" would be difficult for a framework like RedwoodJS.
I followed the tutorial and made a toy app with it. I thought the tutorial was well written, easy to follow, and touched on topics of importance for developers.
In regard to the framework, it is appereant they have thought about the developer workflow and designed a process that would lead to greater productivity.Two aspects I really enjoyed were cells (UI mixed with API calls) and integration with Storybook. I would say that its combination of scaffolding, easy authentication with dbAuth, and Storybook integration provides a lot of productivity benefits.
This is of course if you're interested in basic CRUD. I don't know how it would be for non-CRUD apps.
It's interesting that you have lived in both and can do a fair comparison. There was a reddit thread a while back that compared US and UK salaries.[1] The consensus seemed to be, that if you compared the cost of living, you would need a considerably higher income in the US to have the same standard of living as the UK. One person said that 130K USD salary in the Bay Area would be equivalent to 50K GBP in London.[2] Another person said that 100K USD in the Bay Area is equivalent to 50 GBP in London. [3]