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I'm not sure that these are really the same market share segments. Django, Rails and all that server side stuff is best run on servers, which more often than no

I'm not sure that these are really the same market share segments. Django, Rails and all that server side stuff is best run on servers, which more often than not, are going to be running a *nix. Windows has C# and all that, and it works nicely for them. Perhaps this leads to a wider question of who the Haskell audience really is and what problems they think they solve. Lots of languages have pigeon-holes, Ruby has its super dynamism, Python is an excellent scripting environment, C is fast, etc etc. Haskell is... mathsy. Mathsy applications already have Matlab and such. I think at the end of the day, Haskell will probably remain a language from which other languages learn from, and that's OK, and that doesn't mean it's unimportant (I think even SPJ has said similar).

bmj 16y ago
I think the issue here is buy in from management. If I work at a Windows-centric shop, it's much easier to sell a different platform if it doesn't require building new servers for it. It's much harder to pitch a project when your requirements include new OSes and servers. For example, I work at a Windows-centric shop, but if I could make a compelling case to build a tool/product on a different platform, I could get my boss to approve it if it didn't require a new piece of hardware. We have written tools in other languages besides C#, but we stick to languages that are easy to deploy on our current servers.
shadowfox 16y ago
> Haskell is... mathsy. Mathsy applications already have Matlab and such I would think Haskell is "mathsy" in a much different sense than Matlab is "mathsy"