Any good book recommendations to learn haskell? What is a good

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>>55157405
Pic related, good luck anon!

>>55157420
This is the only correct answer, but really Haskell is a garbage toy language for fucknuggets. Unfortunately you won't realise this until you've spent a few weeks cuddled up next to it, so knock yourself out I guess.

When you try using it for anything except fizzbuzz you'll wish you hadn't wasted your time.

>>55157479
Why is it garbage? what can you exactly do with it

>>55157405
As someone who has been doing functional programming for a while now, this is exactly correct.

My recommendations:

> scala / scala.js -

disclosure: this is my primary language. it's also mainstream / risk free by now.

> elm-lang
this is very new, but it's going places. has an amazing community.

>clojurescript
only because of swanodette and related people. clojure for backend is rubbish

>rust
new and yet to find a real niche other than building desktop applications, but it tries to bring the simplest and best parts of FP without garbage collection

>swift
if you need to do iOS stuff

>>55157538

>As someone who has been doing functional programming for a while now, this is exactly correct.
I mean this >>55157479

haskell is academic garbage that does not work in the 2010s

>>55157538
>new and yet to find a real niche other than building desktop applications

meh rust is not suitable for building desktop applications either today.

afaik, there is only one program that's ever been written in rust,

>>55157538
I'm a mathematician, are you saying that I should learn scala over Haskell?

>>55157705
>I'm a mathematician
What's it like being unemployed?

>>55157756
Like freedom

>>55157705
Depends on what sort of mathematician you are I suppose. Either way I'll assume you are in academics

> category theory
shouldn't you be using idris or adga or siblings?

> algorithms / compilers / programming langs
I've seen recent papers that use scala, so yeah for this use scala over haskell

> other stuff
your choice of language does not matter - just use what others in your field use?


I just think haskell is overrated. And it lacks the sorts of powerful constructs that scala has, and its community is obnoxious compared to say, elm.