'Why Learn Haskell?' is not a very hard question to answer nowadays since it's one of the most 'Perlis Language'.
I hope there's one day we can answer 'Why Use Haskell?', and enjoy all the elegance and preciseness it has to offer. In reality, however, Haskell is the language that continuously and intentionally 'avoiding success'.
Scala was the 'Haskell' in the engineering world a decade ago and still is. There was a trend of hosted languages like Scala and Clojure. It was a way to attract the audience because it was the de-facto platform. Nowadays this trend started to die out, and new generations are more on bare metal, like Rust and Go.
It seems like there's a niche that looks like the new Scala while on bare metal, targeting engineers while without all the historical syntax.
I hope there's one day we can answer 'Why Use Haskell?', and enjoy all the elegance and preciseness it has to offer. In reality, however, Haskell is the language that continuously and intentionally 'avoiding success'.
Scala was the 'Haskell' in the engineering world a decade ago and still is. There was a trend of hosted languages like Scala and Clojure. It was a way to attract the audience because it was the de-facto platform. Nowadays this trend started to die out, and new generations are more on bare metal, like Rust and Go.
It seems like there's a niche that looks like the new Scala while on bare metal, targeting engineers while without all the historical syntax.