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## Boring Haskell.md

      
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    Boring Haskell

Some in the Haskell community set out to create Boring Haskell (aka. Simple Haskell) as a philosophical approach towards Haskell development that emphasizes practicality more than academic perfection.
Manifestos


Boring Haskell Manifesto by Snoyman.
Simple Haskell

Discussions

In reverse chronological order:

2020, Nov 2: reddit: Whole Haskell is Best Haskell
2020, Oct 13: Zulip: Simple Haskell == Worse is better?
2020, Oct 12: "Delivering with Haskell" by Sam Halliday: lobsters & reddit
2020, Sep 3: Zulip: Boring Haskell /= Resenting Types
2020, May 30: reddit: On Marketting Haskell
2020, May 22: reddit: Simple Haskell is Best Haskell
Zulip discussion
2019, Nov 22: reddit: Boring Haskell Manifesto

Boring Libraries

Libraries that got bestowed with "Boring Haskell" stamp:

esqueleto ("This is exactly the kind of boring-yet-absolutely-essential library that Haskell needs")


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    Is Haskell challenging to learn?

Unlike many other languages, it is widely believed that Haskell has its own challenges for a beginner to learn and use it.
Solutions to overcome the belief


Social change: [[Boring Haskell]]
Personal change:

Graham Hutton: "My experience is that people need to be 'ready' to learn what a monad is.  If they are ready, it's not too difficult, but still requires quite a bit of effort - as with anything worthwhile."
Travis Whitaker: How do you know the difference between "novelty budget" and "inertia" and "sunk cost fallacy?"


Discussions


March, 2020: On Haskell and Onboarding