Haskell
Purely functional, lazy. First appeared 1990; ml and functional; research, compilers, finance.
Record¶
| First appeared | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Family | ML and functional |
| Paradigm emphasis | Purely functional, lazy |
| Typing | Static, strong, inferred |
| Memory | Tracing GC |
| Execution | AOT compiled |
| Primary domain | Research, compilers, finance |
| Designers | Haskell committee |
| Reference | https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ |
| Last verified | not yet checked against its source by a human |
Dates are first public release or publication, not the start of internal development. Colour on the typing and memory tags encodes kind, never rank.
Influence¶
Within the ML and functional¶
Algebraic data types, exhaustive pattern matching, and inference-driven typing. The source of most type-system features adopted by mainstream languages since 2010.
| Language | First appeared | Typing | Memory | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML | 1973 | Static, strong, inferred | Tracing GC | Compiled or interpreted |
| Erlang | 1986 | Dynamic, strong | Per-process GC | Bytecode VM (BEAM) |
| OCaml | 1996 | Static, strong, inferred | Generational GC | AOT compiled or bytecode |
| F# | 2005 | Static, strong, inferred | Tracing GC (.NET) | Bytecode + JIT |
| Elixir | 2012 | Dynamic, strong | Per-process GC | Bytecode VM (BEAM) |
| Gleam | 2019 | Static, strong, inferred | Per-process GC | Compiled to Erlang or JavaScript |
| Unison | 2020 | Static, strong, inferred | Tracing GC | Interpreted or compiled |
7 other languages in this family, ordered by first appearance. Haskell itself is omitted. Source: languages.json.