The Problem with Learning Haskell When I started learning Haskell, I always struggled to find a suitable scenario to apply it. Without a concrete problem to solve, it is difficult to make real progress. At some point I had some practical work to do: fetch data from HTTP APIs, process the results, and post them to other endpoints. My instinct was to reach for Python and the requests library, because it is genuinely handy for this kind of task. You grab a URL, get back some JSON, transform it, and send it somewhere else. The whole thing can be done in a few lines. But I thought: this is exactly the kind of real problem I need. Why not try Haskell? Exploring the Existing Ecosystem The first thing I reached for was http-client . It is powerful and the foundation for most other Haskell HTTP libraries. But using it directly requires quite a bit of setup for simple tasks. You need to create a manager, parse a request, and work with a set of low-level types.…