PureScript and Haskell
Two years ago, I starting learning PureScript. I had been intrigued by purely functional programming for some time but had failed to learn Haskell once or twice. PureScript seemed to be a kinder, gentler introduction to this world while retaining the fundamental properties of pureness that made Haskell intriguing to me. As part of my learning process, I rebuilt a slack bot1 I had previously written in go. Once I had learned PureScript and become more comfortable with purely functional idioms, the next logical step seemed to be learning Haskell. I was surprised to discover how much Haskell I already knew from learning PureScript, but core features like laziness (PureScript is a strict language) took some getting used to. ...