Why Learn Haskell?
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- 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.