What is Haskell used for?
Haskell is the main technology that helps us deliver high quality software. There are various criteria to judge software quality, but the most important ones are correctness, performance, and maintainability. Haskell facilitates writing code that scores high on all of these accounts: Correctness.
Why should I use Haskell?
Haskell is a perfect choice for high-load concurrent applications, such as web backends. Maintainability. Haskell encourages using the type system to model the business domain and making the assumptions explicit. As a result, refactoring the code and adapting it to changing requirements is much easier.
Who uses Haskell?
There are lists of companies that use Haskell on the Haskell web site and on Quora. A few highlights are Facebook, IBM, Twitter, AT, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, NVIDIA and Microsoft. Some interesting links are: Facebook uses Haskell in several projects, for example Fighting spam with Haskell.
What is GHCup?
GHCup makes it easy to install specific versions of GHC on GNU/Linux, macOS (aka Darwin), FreeBSD and Windows and can also bootstrap a fresh Haskell developer environment from scratch. It follows the UNIX philosophy of do one thing and do it well. Similar in scope to rustup, pyenv and jenv.
Does Visual Studio support Haskell?
Haskell for Visual Studio Code. This extension adds language support for Haskell, powered by the Haskell Language Server. As almost all features are provided by the server you might find interesting read its documentation.
Which editor is best for Haskell?
Leksah is an IDE for Haskell written in Haskell. Leksah is intended as a practical tool to support the Haskell development process. Leksah uses GTK+ as GUI Toolkit with the gtk2hs binding. It is platform independent and should run on any platform where GTK+, gtk2hs and GHC can be installed.
Does Haskell have an IDE?
Is there an IDE for Haskell?
Haskell IDE Engine Works quite well for me. I second VS Code. However, I use the dramforever. vscode-ghc-simple plugin.