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Do you have worries that eventually your work will need to scale out to multiple people and then it might not be possible to find Haskell hackers?

I am thinking to make a new digital product in Rust but I am a bit worried that when time comes to scale up with more devs there will not be as many as there are with Go which are also less than Node devs.

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There will certainly be less developers in the Haskell vs Go vs Javascript communities. However, you probably only need to find a few developers regardless of the language you are using. :)

That said, hiring Haskell engineers has its pros and cons. Its true there is a smaller pool of developers then other languages, but you end up with a smaller pool of very excited and committed developers eager to use Haskell in production.

No, I’m an indie hacker that also does some contracting. I am a one-man shop, so I don’t need to worry about hiring or working with others. I code in Haskell primarily because I enjoy it, the safety guarantees let me sleep at night, and I find it aesthetically pleasing.

There are plenty of Haskell developers, though not as many as more popular languages. Hiring for Haskell is more competitive, but easier to attract developer attention.

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