Haskell
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CommentsWhat is Haskell?
It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability.
Haskell is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Statically typedPurely functionalType inferenceConcurrent
Haskell Pros & Cons
Pros of Haskell
- ✓Purely-functional programming
- ✓Statically typed
- ✓Type-safe
- ✓Open source
- ✓Great community
- ✓Built-in concurrency
- ✓Built-in parallelism
- ✓Composable
- ✓Referentially transparent
- ✓Generics
Cons of Haskell
- ✗Too much distraction in language extensions
- ✗Error messages can be very confusing
- ✗Libraries have poor documentation
- ✗No best practices
- ✗No good ABI
- ✗Poor packaging for apps written in it for Linux distros
- ✗Sometimes performance is unpredictable
- ✗Monads are hard to understand
- ✗Slow compilation
Haskell Alternatives & Comparisons
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