Haskell & Rust

I have been learning Haskell with the Programming in Haskell book along with an online video course. I chose to learn a functional language because it gives me a different approach to programming which is very valuable. Whilst programs in Haskell can be beautiful and concise, it is very hard to get your head around writing it as it uses some completely different programming paradigms to something like C++.

I have also been learning Rust, a relatively new programming language with a focus on safety and speed. It has no runtime and it can reach speeds of C whilst maintaining type safety. To achieve this safety, it has no Null, it also has variables as non mutable and it only allows one mutable pointer to a data structure. This means it can catch the most common crashes at compile time.

Although to begin with it felt like I was battling the compiler, I now recognise how useful it is. To learn rust I have been using The Book - doc.rust-lang.org/book/