[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Usage

[Ivan Perez]

Hi

Usage within NASA is very rare but we do use Haskell:

https://github.com/Copilot-Language/copilot/
https://github.com/nasa/ogma

Ivan

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 14:24, MigMit <migmit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Depends on what you really want.
>
> Erlang, in my experience, is not a functional language at all. There is a
> thin veneer of functionality, true, but mostly it's an object-oriented
> language, Smalltalk-style. They say "process" instead of "object", but it's
> basically the same thing.
>
> If you want a language that is significantly more functional (although
> still not really), and also quite practical and popular in the industry,
> you can try Scala. Especially Scala 3, which seems to have fixed quite a
> lot of grievances, in particular those related to Odersky not really
> understanding math. Additionally, in Scala world you have Akka, which is
> modelled after Erlang's multithreading model, so you don't really lose
> anything important.
>
> > On 14 Nov 2023, at 22:27, Henrique Caldeira <h.caldeira at ua.pt> wrote:
> >
> > Good Evening from Portugal,
> >
> > I write to you about the usage of Haskell because I had a professor
> recommending me Erlang instead because Haskell was "more for academic
> purposes", which left me wondering if all my time spent was spent only for
> curiosity sake.
> >
> > I want to know how true my professor's statement is.
> >
> > I am very passionate about Haskell, although I admit the ecosystem can
> be confusing sometimes (for example, when to use cabal or stack, which
> versions of packages to use in order to avoid conflicts, or simply
> installing them through nixos or arch can be a learning process).
> >
> > Would love to hear your thoughts about all of this and thank you with
> all my heart.
> >
> > Lastly, all these wonderings are asked in a curious, "wanting to learn
> more" mindset.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Henrique Caldeira
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