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I don't mean to knock Haskell at all. It's a fine language with a great community around it. That said, the number of commercial applications developed in Hask
by brianberns 8y ago
I don't mean to knock Haskell at all. It's a fine language with a great community around it.
That said, the number of commercial applications developed in Haskell is very small, because, I think, it doesn't integrate as well into the larger ecosystems around it. It seems like it's a beautiful island all by itself.
- platz 8y agoThe number of commercial applications developed in functional programming languages as a whole is pretty small compared to mainstream languages. I am a dotnet dev and also like F# a lot, but I cannot think of very many commercial applications written in F# either.
- brianberns 8y agoThat's true, but for someone like me in a C# shop, I can slip F# code into our apps seamlessly. No one would say the apps are written in F#, but several key components are. Hopefully, FP will take over the world soon and Haskell and F# will both be at the top of the charts! :)
- platz 8y agoyeah, very cool you were able to find a way to write some F# at work, I wish I could too. Given trends, I don't expect to see any exponential growth though.