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Good luck hiring Haskell programmers. If you're really serious you go C or C++, not interpreted languages at all. But that said, plenty of big scale stuff is

Good luck hiring Haskell programmers. If you're really serious you go C or C++, not interpreted languages at all. But that said, plenty of big scale stuff is running on PHP, Python and Ruby. The language matters less than the people using it and the architecture design.

boothead 11y ago
Actually, that Haskell developers are hard to hire is one of the biggest myths going. Supply of Haskell developers massively outstrips demand at the moment. In my experience Haskell also neatly address the other two points of people and architecture: the average [0] level of skill of developers in the Haskell community is higher, as is their average level of grit and determination (because of the learning curve). Haskell almost encourages constructing your applications as operations over streams of events (a la event sourcing, unified log etc), which for my money is the best way to think about designing most platform type apps right now. [0] Note: I'm not claiming that all Haskell developers are coding ubermensch, just that the average level of the pool of talent is higher.
stefanix 11y ago
Maybe it's the other way around. You have to be extremely serious when your goal is safe C/C++.
- nasalgoat 11y ago
  Perhaps part of the problem is that these interpreted languages have made programmers lazy.
  - yogthos 11y ago
    Perhaps part of the problem is that a lot of people still don't understand that developer time is one of the biggest costs in developing and maintaining software.