Ask HN: Who is using Haskell in production?

6 points·tomas789··3 comments

I work for a big corporate. We are consodering Haskell for a specific use case. The leadership wants to know where is it used in production already. There are a few lists but they seem slightly outdated mostly.

What is your industry? How are you using it? What is the team size? What is the overall experience with it?

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I work for one of the biggest e-commerce sites in Sweden, in the fashion industry.

We are a group of 8 engineers using Haskell exclusively working on payments and checkout related solutions.

The experience has been amazing so far. We are able to ship with great velocity considering the size of the team. We have also been able to refactor things easily when requirements change. Haskell has helped in keeping the code in good shape even after the many direction changes.

See the list of donors to the Haskell Foundation (at the bottom of https://haskell.foundation/) and the testimonials on https://www.haskell.org/ for a subset of those firms who are using Haskell in production.

Small DevSecOps business, with no dedicated team but about four primary developers using it for a shared service in our data transfer layer. Our lack of knowledge sometimes makes feature lead time slow, but the type system makes us feel very safe. Unfortunately our tooling experience has been abysmal. I’ve come to accept I just don’t get anything beyond basic syntax highlighting.

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