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Should probably look into Haskell. Have absolutely no clue what's it best suited for?

by tildeheimat 3y ago

Pirate-of-SV 3y ago
Writing parsers and tokenizers probably.
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  That's what it's best for, but personally I use it for everything. If I ever get into low-level code I'll probably use Rust though. You can confirm that parsers/tokenizers is ranked "best in class" here though: https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md
unhammer 3y ago
Here are some stories of what it's actually used for: https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/12vhz1c/genuine_question_how_do_you_all_use_haskell_irl/ https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/12vhz1c/genuine_qu...
- irmgardweber 3y ago
  Ha! I was also curious. Thank you for sharing.
gilmi 3y ago
Please allow me to share a blog post and a learning resource: - Consider Haskell - https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2020/04/28/consider-haskell https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2020/04/28/consider-haskell - Learn Haskell by building a blog generator - https://lhbg-book.link https://lhbg-book.link
ParetoOptimal 3y ago
You might find this survey of Haskell's maturity of different use cases very useful: https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md
koromak 3y ago
I have yet to find a place in my own work where Haskell would strictly be a better choice, but god damn its fun to write. Thats not a knock on Haskell either, I have a more bog standard job than it likes.
jsbg 3y ago
It's a general purpose language, I wouldn't say it's more or less suited to this or that, other than the libraries available for it.
- stonemetal12 3y ago
  It is a garbage collected language so it is generally less suited for real time applications. As far as I am aware there aren't any implementations designed to run on very low memory embedded platforms. As far as I am aware GHC's collector is not as good as Java's.

Should probably look into Haskell. Have absolutely no clue what's it best suited for?

Pirate-of-SV 3y ago

Writing parsers and tokenizers probably.

ParetoOptimal 3y ago
That's what it's best for, but personally I use it for everything. If I ever get into low-level code I'll probably use Rust though. You can confirm that parsers/tokenizers is ranked "best in class" here though: https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md

unhammer 3y ago

Here are some stories of what it's actually used for: https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/12vhz1c/genuine_question_how_do_you_all_use_haskell_irl/ https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/12vhz1c/genuine_qu...

irmgardweber 3y ago
Ha! I was also curious. Thank you for sharing.

gilmi 3y ago

Please allow me to share a blog post and a learning resource: - Consider Haskell - https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2020/04/28/consider-haskell https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2020/04/28/consider-haskell - Learn Haskell by building a blog generator - https://lhbg-book.link https://lhbg-book.link

ParetoOptimal 3y ago

You might find this survey of Haskell's maturity of different use cases very useful: https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md

koromak 3y ago

I have yet to find a place in my own work where Haskell would strictly be a better choice, but god damn its fun to write. Thats not a knock on Haskell either, I have a more bog standard job than it likes.

jsbg 3y ago

It's a general purpose language, I wouldn't say it's more or less suited to this or that, other than the libraries available for it.

stonemetal12 3y ago
It is a garbage collected language so it is generally less suited for real time applications. As far as I am aware there aren't any implementations designed to run on very low memory embedded platforms. As far as I am aware GHC's collector is not as good as Java's.