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I've been interested in Idris for quite awhile, but not sure how to go about learning it. Are there any particularly good resources? Am I expected to know Haskell or is it sufficient to have a few years of experience with FP in general?


You should be good to go picking up "Type-driven development with Idris". It's a great book not just for learning Idris but also for hammering down the concept of using types and the compiler as a design pillar if you're not fully used to it.


There's even a page in the Idris 2 docs with updates to the book for Idris 2 -- https://idris2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/typedd/typedd.html

The book is otherwise still totally relevant for Idris 2 and is a great read & introduction to dependent types.


+1 on "Type-driven development with Idris". A really fun and insightful book to work through!


I've written some Elm so I think I basically get the concept. I'll have to check out the book then.


https://learn-idris.net/ this is the website I made. Not sure it is very good though.

The Edwin’s book about Idris is good, BTW.




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