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> Aside from the huge number of JavaScript programmers, the top 5 are Ruby, Python, Haskell and Java. > No functional language beside Haskell cracked the top 5
by fnordsensei 9y ago
> Aside from the huge number of JavaScript programmers, the top 5 are Ruby, Python, Haskell and Java.
> No functional language beside Haskell cracked the top 5. I’m a little surprised by this: I had expected to see more people with functional programming experience.
Perhaps Elm provides less "news" to people who are already using one functional platform or another, and therefore lower incentive to try it out/switch?
- Tarean 9y agoFor haskell programmers there is also purescript which is basically a somewhat cleaned up haskell that compiles to human readable javascript.