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> Yet another confirmation that pure functional langs work great when its just one or two buddies working on a "pure programming" project, but evidence remains scant of their real world utility beyond that.

We (Mercury) have 60 backend engineers working on a monolithic Haskell backend. So at least there is one counterpoint to your hypothesis.

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What does your onboarding process look like for Haskell engineers? Ballpark time-to-first-master-commit for new hires?

I'm another Mercury employee. When I joined there wasn't much of a specific onboarding process at all, beyond being given a few simple tickets to work on and pointed to some documentation.

I had written a very small amount of Haskell before, but IIRC correctly I think I made my first commit only a few weeks after joining. In general even people without an existing strong FP background seemed to become productive pretty quickly.

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