Why Learn Haskell? (2018)

Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by leke on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:12AM (#26302409)

I'm actually interested in Haskell now after I learned an interesting crypto startup called Cardano uses it and stakes (pun intended) its success on it. They toute the safety and maintainability for their choice, claiming it's the language of choice for banking institutions (if my memory serves me correctly).

Found the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CffrvwIW0JY

I'm currently a web developer, but the blockchain scene is quite interesting. Especially these new smart contracts look quite easy to play around with.

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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by lelanthran on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:00AM (#26302805)

> They toute the safety and maintainability for their choice, claiming it's the language of choice for banking institutions

So is COBOL. Doesn't mean anything, really. Bankers' choices in tech probably has nothing to do with ideological/purity issues in software development.

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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by exdsq on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:17AM (#26302948)

It's to do with the ability to formally reason about the code using formal methods/verification etc...

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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by christiansakai on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:28AM (#26302548)

I believe Cardano will re-ignite the interest in Haskell.

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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by agumonkey on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:54AM (#26303288)

IIUC there's another crypto/dapp thing, but in ocaml.

I guess safe and fast fp appeals to distributed finance.

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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by longngn on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:52PM (#26318094)

It's Tezos

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