I see more and more people encouraging people to learn Haskell. But why ? What can you do with it, that you would not do with another language? what have you done with haskell?

It is just so different. It's functional, so it opens a whole new perspective for you. I think that's the point mainly

Can only repeat what @Froot said. We use Haskell in the Introduction to CS course and it makes you think in a completely different manner.

I once made "Asteroids" (the game) in it for an assignment.

I never used Haskell but we had a challenge at work to write Space Invaders using ASCII graphics in F# which is also functional

It was very interesting as none of us had programmed F# before.

Ended up with a working prototype in 50 lines of code.

Only missing features was no cover for the players and the invaders did not fire any shots, you just had to get them all before the reached ground.

We got xmonad, and that's all i need to know 😁

I'm thinking about trying out a functional language. So far I'd settle on rust, as I kind of like, that the memory management isn't using a garbage collecotor, but forces you to write "clean" code, that the compiler can figure out. Any advantage of haskel compared with rust?

@Wack That's like comparing an apple to an oil tanker.

They're so different that any comparison will most likely be very hard