Nice language overall, good tooling, and seems to hold together better than OCaml (my only prior FP experience).

The learning curve is super steep, especially given that I’m doing it in limited time for AoC 2023 day 2 only, but it definitely feels like you can easily get very proficient with it. I get a bit lost among all the function application/composition/binding/pipelining operators and had troubles wrapping my head around do expressions but I eventually managed to have a working program.

Day 2 of AoC required making a parser, so I used parsec, which forced me to play quite a bit with the Parser monad (+ the IO monad to read the input file at the beginning).

I really struggled to Google some basic stuff, like I easily spent 15 minutes looking for the & operator. I’m ashamed to admit it but it was Ch*tGPT that helped me for this.

Enough said. I probably won’t become a hardcore #Haskell dev but I’ll definitely consider its use for small projects in the future (e.g. game solvers). And no more OCaml in my life, for sure.