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Exercises should have rough estimates of difficulty

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
json
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read the related issue and inspect config.json to understand the track configuration and how exercises are represented. Define rough topic and difficulty metadata for the exercises, then verify that the configuration supports filtering and that all entries are valid.

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Description

enhancement

Related to https://github.com/exercism/purescript/issues/92

Topic and difficulty

Core exercises unlock optional additional exercises, which can be filtered by topic an difficulty, however that will only work if we add topics and difficulties to the exercises in the track config, which is in https://github.com/exercism/purescript/blob/master/config.json

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PureScript
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