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I've been wanting to make time to learn Haskell. But I have this problem, when learning any language, where I don't know what to build, but want to take a learn by doing approach.

What are some good things to build when getting into a new language? Data structures? Chat server?

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I really love writing libraries. Haskell has a type system that supports defining really solid abstractions (I.e. code that doesn't even permit wrong usage). Creating APIs like that is extremely satisfying. Maybe take a look on hackage and see if there's something missing that you'd like to see and make it.

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