Should I learn Haskell? Why or why not?
Should I learn Haskell? Why or why not?
Nicholas Murphy
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Jason Hernandez
If it matters, I'm a full time web programmer with over 5 years of experience, I've used php, ruby, C#. Most of my work is front-end now, in ES6 with react.
Gavin Parker
Why?
It's fun.
Why not?
It won't land you a job.
Julian Green
I know it's a cliche, but learn it because it'll make you a better developer.
Nathan Barnes
You should because every experience makes you a better developer and the Haskell experience will double this.
You shouldn't because unless you're a massive brainlet or only care about market value, it's a waste of time unless you become expert. Also you will be depressed when working with the languages for mere mortals because they won't let you do it the Haskell way.
Aiden Parker
i second this.
Hunter Bailey
I know prolog. how long will it take me to learn haskell?
Colton Clark
>Should I learn Haskell?
Why
>for the greater good
or why not?
>Because beyond contributing to xmonad in different ways it's entirely useless and barely used, when it is used; it's done so as example for F#
Bentley Martin
Fintech uses plenty of haskell, safety critical specs are mostly haskell these days. It's a niche language like R, but it's worth learning if you don't already know something from the ML family.
Blake Diaz
Learning functional programming and how to use an ML like type system will both greatly improve your programming ability. As for why you should learn Haskell specifically; is the learning resources. There are introductory books covering those topics in good depth for Haskell and Standard ML, which I actually recommend just as highly. The are other languages that have the important features of Haskell, but those don't have the learning resources.
*Note: I make no mention of Lazy Evaluation because good functional programming books tend to cover that topic.