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# Considering Haskell
### by Tony Hannan, July 2011
There are already plenty of languages to choose from for your Mongo application, so why consider [Haskell](http://www.haskell.org/)? The reason is there are several unique features in Haskell that help reduce bugs and increase programmer productivity (and serenity). In this article, I will introduce some of these features and describe how they could benefit your application. I will also discuss one troublesome feature of Haskell that you should be aware of.
There are plenty of languages to choose from for your Mongo application, so why should you consider [Haskell](http://www.haskell.org/)? The reason is there are several unique features in Haskell that help reduce bugs and increase programmer productivity and serenity. In this article, I will introduce some of these features and describe how they could benefit your application. I will also discuss one troublesome feature of Haskell that you should be aware of.
Before we get into features, let me address probably the most common reason why many people do not consider Haskell: because Haskell is not popular (no one they know uses it). My rebuttal to this is: even though Haskell is not popular, it is popular *enough*. The Haskell community and ecosystem (libraries and tools) has reached a critical mass such that you can easily find previous success stories (see [Haskell in industry](http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry)), find Haskell programmers to hire (just send an email to the [Haskell mailing list](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Mailing_Lists)), and find libraries for most anything you would expect to find in a popular language (see [Hackage](http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html) for the list of over 3000 libraries). Let's define a *mainstream* language as one with this critical mass. I claim that you should consider all mainstream languages (I would say there are about 10 of them). Assuming you agree, let's now judge Haskell on its features alone.