Is it just me or is this whole thing about „don’t do X if you don’t really know what you’re doing“ really counter productive? Many people live in fear of X now and don’t start thinking if X is an actual problem or learn what the problems are that could rise from X.
I see this very often in the #haskell ecosystem where the solution to doing X properly is often learnt in a few minutes investigation.
@mangoiv I know I've said that a few times. Two examples I can think of:
AllowAmbiguousTypes, GHC suggests this but you should probably just use Proxy arguments instead.
Typeable, people coming from OOP languages often want a typeof function, but 99% of the time there is a better way to structure your programs using simple ADTs.
I still think these are not learnt in a few minutes. Even if that was the case, the most important thing you should learn is that you shouldn't use them very often.
@mangoiv What comes to mind is that they might be overeagerly trying to avoid the XY problem from happening https://xyproblem.info/
Yet given I haven't asked around much I don't have too much personal experience on that front, I just want to assume people have some non-elitism reason for it. Then again I might also be misunderstanding the problem case here.
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