Haskell

Summary

A purely functional programming language with strong static typing and non-strict evaluation. It emphasizes mathematical elegance, immutability, and type safety.

Paradigms

purely functional, declarative, generic, concurrent, meta-programming, functional

Domains

compiler, financial systems, formal verification, automated theorem proving

Key Features

algebraic data types, type classes, pattern matching, lazy evaluation, type inference, monads, pure functions, currying, first-class functions, tail-call optimization

Typing

static system, non-structural typing, strong typing, full inference, compile-time checking, none type coercion, optional type annotations

Compilation

compiled

Influenced By

Miranda, ML, FP, Hope, Lisp, Clean, Lazy ML, Orwell

Influenced

Scala, Aldor, Qi, F#, Croc, Ballerina, Elm, Idris, Swift, CoffeeScript, Hack, Mercury, A♯, Curry, Lean, PureScript, Frege, Pure, Roc, Raku, LiveScript, Agda, Python, Ur/Web, Chaos, Clojure, Nix, Rust, TypeScript, C#

Ratings

File extensions

hs, hs-boot, hsc

External Links

• Haskell official site
• @HaskellOrg on X
• Haskell jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/haskell subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories