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The community doesn't treat the lack of learning resources / documentation as a serious problem.

This is what drove me back to Haskell from Clojure. Haskell is miles ahead in documentation, references, tutorials and tooling. Tools like Hoogle are manna from heaven for beginners and experienced developers alike. Couple that with the self-documenting aspect of types and even undocumented Haskell libraries are grokkable in a reasonable amount of time.

While this has no bearing on anything you or anyone else should do today, it's worth noting Haskell is 24 years old, Clojure 9. I'd be astonished if Haskell wasn't miles ahead on all that you mention.

That may be so, but Haskell went through a very long gestation period while Clojure really hit the ground running. The Haskell as we know it today (from the revised Haskell 98 report) didn't come around until early 2003.

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