​​New functional language focused on good developer experience.

A user from Quora asked:

> Why isn't functional programming that popular even though it's so beneficial?

One of the top answer says:

> The user experiences of functional programming languages sucks.

No doubt, this is a sad but true story for most functional programming (FP) languages. I personally thought that FP languages like Haskell offers a very unified and pure programming concepts (i.e. everything are functions, and functions and compose well, etc). However, Haskell syntax is a mess (take a look at the grammar), there are a lot of edge cases (e.g. weird indentation rules). Of course this problem is not only limited to Haskell, similar problems can also be found in other FP languages like Erlang, F#, OCaml etc. Thus, I believe that these are also the primal reason that most people felt FP languages are hard.

> I wanted more people to adopt FP.

That is what I wished for, therefore I'm motivated to create a language called Keli (named after my girlfriend), which hopes to an FP language with good user experience (UX).

In the following section, I will describe the UX problems of FP languages and how they are solved in other programming languages.

https://keli-language.gitbook.io/doc/

Written in #haskell