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> I believe the Haskell investment is one that every serious programmer should like to make as it should make your both work easier _and_ more fun.

As long as you're developing on linux. IME, trying to use haskell libraries on another OS is hell.

Personally I've had very few issues using Haskell libs on OSX and Windows.

Personally I had so many issues using Haskell libs on Windows that I gave up on the language.

I've documented the details of my complaint here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615516

I think this comment from that thread tells you all you need to know:

shpider might be giving you another hint about using Haskell:

(from the README):

"occupation" =: "unemployed Haskell programmer"

"location" =: "mother's house"

Sure, but like I said, "Long story short, I tried installing ~10 libraries with Cabal and only one installed smoothly."