Haskell

There are a seemingly limitless number of programming languages around, and it can be difficult to figure out which one is ideal for your project. It can be incredibly frustrating to make it halfway into a project before you realize that the unique peculiarities of a language are working against your best interests, and success means subverting the syntax and creating unwieldy if creative workarounds rather than being able to trust that the language has clean functions that serve your specific needs. Haskell's strength comes in its flexibility and the simplicity of its syntax. Where many other languages specialize in particular types of development, Haskell serves as an all-around workhorse, and its syntax has a simple but powerful logic that makes Haskell easy to pick up and jump right into. One of the underlying strengths of Haskell is that it's a purely functional language. That means it's mathematically pure, and once you understand the principles of the language, you can accurately predict what every line of code will do. There are no peculiarities, and Haskell works solely with expressions. You don't have to worry about mutating language or the complicated difficulties that come from combining different classes of variables. Since you aren't mutating variables, there's a consistency throughout the code, which makes it easier for new developers to come in, understand, and update your code, a necessity in most modern programming projects. Unlike object oriented programming, where essentially invented language is being used to supplement the raw code that a computer analyzes, it strips everything down to the core, removing the barrier between human language and machine language more effectively than most other programming frameworks. This philosophy of simple and mathematical code can be reflected in how Haskell handles control constructs. Unlike a language like Python, where you have different variables denoting values and evaluators, Haskell has no evaluators. Through these lazy functions, you can compress together otherwise highly complicated if then chains, and most programmers know that the simpler an argument is, the lower the risk of errors along the way. Of course, a language ultimately lives and dies on its packages. Designing every single aspect of your project from scratch is a senseless and costly endeavor, and every coder comes to rely on shortcuts to achieve their end results effectively. Haskell has an expansive and enthusiastic development community, and there are over 6,000 free packages readily available. These cover everything from statistical analysis and web server management to zip compression and text encoding. Since so much of the functionality of Haskell is confined to its packages, you can simply import the functions that matter to you and compartmentalize your project's components. And the basic logic that drives Haskell's syntax means that regardless of the package you import, you can learn the ins and outs of it very quickly.