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IMO yes, it's very much worth learning, but you have the motivation all wrong. Learning Haskell will make you a better programmer, but it won't make a job fall

• xupybd 3y ago
  >it won't make a job fall on your lap on its own There is no expectation that a job will fall on my lap. However, if I have a better chance of winning the lottery than landing a job in a technology I'm not likely to bother learning the technology. I'm not convince Haskell will do more to making me a better programmer than another language could. If that other language has job prospects I'm going to lean into that.
  • epgui 3y ago
    The odds for lottery are not even within ten orders of magnitude the odds of getting a job with Haskell. It's totally doable. (We could talk about other languages too, but here we were talking about Haskell. It's a particularly interesting choice for growing as an engineer because it's a purely functional language, which means it will force you to unlearn a whole bunch of things and give you a lot more perspective-- it's not difficult, it's just very different than most other languages you likely have exposure to. I also recommend Clojure, that's a great language.)