Are there any field where haskell is heavily used, beyond PL research ?
I may start to look into it as some point for curiosity, but it would be nice if i'd knew that it would be at least a bit useful somewhere.
I may start to look into it as some point for curiosity, but it would be nice if i'd knew that it would be at least a bit useful somewhere.
On a more personal note, learning Haskell is more like learning FP and basic type theory, both of which are transferrable skills to most languages. How "useful" is debatable. Maps and filters you can use almost everywhere, ADTs are lacking in most languages, going into things like optics or type lambdas engineers will start feeling you are crazy but that's not even scratching the surface of PL research
[This is a half-joking note. Many real-world programs are written in Haskell and OCaml, but they really are the minority]
Native support for ADTs is lacking, but most languages can cobble them together out of OO constructs, and they're so useful that it's often worth the inconvenience.
Hiring was actually Haskell’s strong side. I managed to hire 6 engineers in only one month. There were more than 50 applicants to the position. Just the idea of using Haskell in production is attractive to many.
It’s been a great experience overall. I worked at a python company before this one and it’s been refreshing not having unexpected runtime errors. Moving money around requires more robustness than your typical app.
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/hasura-migrating-to-rust/662...