Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?

Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by 4e530344963049 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:57AM (#30578383)

"JS is almost never the right tool for the job"

Except, you know, in the browser...

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by mountainriver on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:00AM (#30578415)

Yeah I didn’t get that part, JS is one of the most used languages because of the browser

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by jpgvm on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:45AM (#30578789)

This is fair. I don't write browser code.

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by UnpossibleJim on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:12AM (#30578516)

Web Assembly is right around the corner... still =P

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by yakshaving_jgt on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:02AM (#30584390)

That doesn’t mean you need to write JavaScript. You can write code in a reasonable language that compiles to JavaScript.

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by fulafel on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:22AM (#30585064)

Sometimes yes but for a lot of situations we have better options, like ClojureScript, TypeScript, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by 7thaccount on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:30PM (#30579767)

I assume they meant everything, except the browser (like electron apps or NodeJS on the backend).

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