I’m a recently retired Java developer. For several years, I’ve thought of FP as a cool methodology, and of Haskell as a cool language. But I’ve never got the chance to put Haskell to use in production code, and I exercise my little. knowledge so rarely, that I tend to forget most of it between the attempts.

I also have problems with the IDE setup. Currently, I’m using VS Code. I’ve seen useful annotations in the editor, but they don’t work right now. I would love to have a mentor who I could do some pair programming with.

While I call Haskell a cool language, I also think it has its problems. One showcase, the elegant solution to the QuickSort algorithm, isn’t so nice if you look closer at it.