I think this basically nails the attitude of every single go convert that I have spoken to. I am starting to get tired of hearing lines like "that lisp stuff is too complicated, I am a go programmer" or "why would you do x in y way, it's so much better in go".
I don't think I have ever seen such unrelenting fanboyism in a programming language. It very well may be a fantastic language but its not an end all be all, we would do well to remember that.
Dont let this discourage you from trying Yesod. The Yesod team has made it really really easy to install a core of isolated packages for the framework. The problem comes from trying to upgrade. I know that sounds insane(and it is), but you should try it out, it has quite a lot to offer.
The problem with packages and Haskell is well known; there are a few camps currently trying to solve the issue. Personally, (although the author went about things in a rather roundabout way) I can feel for the author. I LOVE Haskell, I cannot think of a better language for prototyping crazy ideas in and I work in it every chance that I get; that being said, its awful to get up and running with cabal. The suggestion which has been posed to me is "simply use cabal-dev", when I do this, I wind up with crazy huge project files because of repeat installs. I sincerely hope that someone much smarter than myself can come up with a solution for this; I think it is a primary reason why Haskell is not being more widely adopted.
I cannot second this enough. Pandoc Markdown has some nice little tidbits, oddly contrasting to the above, the table syntaxes(yes there are more than one) are pretty darn useful.
Congratulations! I have been working with Yesod off and on for about 6 months now. It is truly fantastic; I am actually transitioning off of Django in favor of Yesod. Type safety and conduits for the win.
I'd agree with that sentiment. The author goes too far to say that people are getting "hoodwinked". There are doers and dreamers, sometimes the dreamers become the doers with a bit of a push. That's not to say that it happens to everyone, but its safe to say that it could.
I don't think I have ever seen such unrelenting fanboyism in a programming language. It very well may be a fantastic language but its not an end all be all, we would do well to remember that.