> 5. There are four different "stringish" types in Haskell: List, LazyList, ByteString, LazyByteString. A function like splitStringWith works on one of the types, but not the three others for which you need other functions. Some libraries expect Lists, other ByteStrings or LazyByteStrings so you have to keep converting your string to the different types.
I guess you mean String, ByteString, Lazy ByteString, Text, Lazy Text?
> 6. Most Haskellers seem to content with just having type declarations as the api documentation. That's not a fault of Haskell per se, but imho a weakness in the Haskell community. For example, here is the documentation for the Data.Foldable module: http://hackage.haskell.org/p ackages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/Data-Foldable.html
But there's more documentation than just type signatures on that page! Anyway, being able to rely on type signatures as documentation is testament to the expressivity of the type system, encourages small reusable combinators, and is a great strength, in my opinion.
> 7. This is very subjective and anecdotal but I've found the Haskell people to be less helpful to newbies than other programming groups.
Strange, I've always heard they're one of the communities most helpful to newbies. I don't have any evidence one way or other though.
I guess you mean String, ByteString, Lazy ByteString, Text, Lazy Text?
> 6. Most Haskellers seem to content with just having type declarations as the api documentation. That's not a fault of Haskell per se, but imho a weakness in the Haskell community. For example, here is the documentation for the Data.Foldable module: http://hackage.haskell.org/p ackages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/Data-Foldable.html
But there's more documentation than just type signatures on that page! Anyway, being able to rely on type signatures as documentation is testament to the expressivity of the type system, encourages small reusable combinators, and is a great strength, in my opinion.
> 7. This is very subjective and anecdotal but I've found the Haskell people to be less helpful to newbies than other programming groups.
Strange, I've always heard they're one of the communities most helpful to newbies. I don't have any evidence one way or other though.