I’m a relative newcomer to Haskell. I still haven’t used it for anything serious, but I’d like to.

I had experienced all of these problems. Initially, I was attracted to Haskell for the promise of “if it compiles then it’s probably correct.” I quickly discovered that isn’t true, for the reasons discussed in the article.

But I also had issues with Cabal. I couldn’t get Snap to install. I tried installing it in a container, still didn’t work. I finally figured out something that would let me build with Snap, but for some reason LSP in Emacs couldn’t find the snap libraries, so it couldn’t provide me correct feedback. And then the build times. Wow. I gave up on writing that program in Haskell and wrote it in Go instead.

I think Haskell has a lot to offer. I’d be open to trying it again. Hopefully these shortcomings improve.