I don't think it's too hard to get started. While the Haskell website itself could and should be a bit prettier and more organized to highlight this, the Haskell platform itself is a one click install and pretty easy to get started with. That gets you up and running with everything you need to start learning the ecosystem.
What FPComplete is doing is phenomenal for corporate adoption because big companies like to mitigate risk by having some support options and tools available.
Personally, I think regardless of the rate of popular adoption, Haskell is a phenomenal tool to have at your disposal and more programmers should start learning it and building systems with it. The learning curve is ridiculously high compared to most other languages because you're going to have to change a big part about how you think about solving problems, but its a fun ride.
Personally I think the developer site needs to be somewhat professional for me to even consider it. I'm by no means a great programmer but if I were to stumble upon the Haskell website, I would immediately shy away for the the extremely low-res background image
The Platform has a seasonal theme and one of the maintainers thought the flower represented Spring well. I think it'd be okay if the seasonal theme were more obvious instead of being entirely a codename... and in the future the design probably ought to be more austere.
http://www.haskell.org/platform/
What FPComplete is doing is phenomenal for corporate adoption because big companies like to mitigate risk by having some support options and tools available.
Personally, I think regardless of the rate of popular adoption, Haskell is a phenomenal tool to have at your disposal and more programmers should start learning it and building systems with it. The learning curve is ridiculously high compared to most other languages because you're going to have to change a big part about how you think about solving problems, but its a fun ride.