Why Learn Haskell?

Posted by: Seth Lakowske

Published: 2016-04-25

• Type system improves correctness by constraining input, so you spend less time running broken code.
• Pure functions have no side-effects, more code is written in a way that does not affect other parts of the system when it is run. This makes it easier to reason about.
• Refactoring is more deterministic in a typed language.
• Modeling category theory is natural in Haskell.
• GHCJS provides Haskell -> Javascript compilation.
• Lazy evaluation means less wasted computation.
• Great testing framework using quickcheck to generate random values for testing.