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I saw the same at CircleCI with clojure. People want to use functional langs in real systems - we had a lot of Haskell lovers apply because "close enough". Way easier than hiring rails devs. One of the reasons I'm using OCaml/Elm in my new startup :)

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> One of the reasons I'm using OCaml/Elm in my new startup

Where do I apply? ;-)

(To prove the point: yes, I'm one of those passion people, moving to Denmark to work in OCaml full-time, before working in Clojure full-time. Now someone give me an Idris job, heh!)

I'm not the quoted person, but we hire Elm devs (or people who want to become Elm devs - no prior Elm experience necessary; you can pick it up after joining!) all over the world.

Most of our team is remote, including one from Copenhagen!

http://noredink.com/jobs

Damn you Richard, you hired all the best Elm devs and cornered the market :)

Oh man, if only! There are soooo many amazing Elm devs out there.

I'm excited for Elm Europe in large part so I can finally meet more of them in person!

You and your team (NoRedInk, Evan, et.al.) could actually grow the number for amazing Elm devs out. I think part of the reason is that there's a very narrow avenue to traverse to even build production-level Elm apps. One of the sure fire discouraging factor for someone learning and wanting to embrace a language is when s/he is unable to see the same see the light of the day at the hands of real users/consumers.

P.S. I'd love to learn and apply Elm across. I've applied at NoRedInk but did not get any response.

I think I know the person in Copenhagen, it is a small city after all :D

You could go do reason @ facebook messenger (I dont work at facebook):

https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas...

Wait, Facebook is rewriting one of the most used applications on Earth with an ML -> Javascript compiler?

Not sure how I missed that, seems like it was under reported.

They are rewriting the web version. Don’t know how big/popular that one is.

Yes and they use haskell too

Here: http://ellenandpaulsnewstartup.com/careers/ :)

I’m curius, who’s using OCaml in Denmark? (If you don’t mind me asking, of course)

There is SimCorp and Issuu that I know of, but I've also been at a meetup hosted by a company doing ReasonML. And there are a couple of people doing OCaml at Zendesk, but I don't know if they use it in production or just for fun.

Issuu is (or was?)

Don't know if that's where op is going though :)

Out of interest, where were you doing OCaml work in DK? Issuu?

Can confirm, I was one of them ;)

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