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How did you sell Haskell? Once Haskell was decided on, how did you approach development?

by craigsmansion 8y ago

MaxGabriel 8y ago
We were a team of 3, with the CEO and myself technical, so ultimately it came down to just co-founder trust. Immad was somewhat skeptical, but after interviewing some amazing candidates who wanted to work for us to use Haskell, he's really liked it. Development was pretty simple, I just created a yesod-postgres template and we got started with authentication. Are you asking about something specific?
- craigsmansion 8y ago
  Thanks for your reply. My question wasn't specific, more of a general approach, like how to find people and how to get started with development, etc. So a small team with technically capable people with I guess little outside interference, that makes sense. I guess I was hoping for a good approach on how to make Haskell/ML/<other sane but not mainstream language> palatable to decision people who aren't all that technically inclined.
  - MaxGabriel 8y ago
    Hopefully Mercury can be a success story you can cite :)
    - craigsmansion 8y ago
      I hope so. A backend using Haskell sure would be a selling point for me. I shudder to think of the software that is currently used by many financial firms to handle backend interactions. Best of luck!
- ignoramous 8y ago
  Offtopic but I really find this haskell rant by Steve Yegge hilarious https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers... I also came across a post from immad [0] on hiring for startups, and it looks like you guys have a high bar for tech talent anyway so using Haskell shouldn't hurt. I wish you the best. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120808074423/http://stdout.heyzap.com/2012/07/25/how-to-ace-a-startup-engineering-interview-part-1/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120808074423/http://stdout.hey...

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How did you sell Haskell? Once Haskell was decided on, how did you approach development?

by craigsmansion 8y ago

How did you sell Haskell? Once Haskell was decided on, how did you approach development?

MaxGabriel 8y ago
We were a team of 3, with the CEO and myself technical, so ultimately it came down to just co-founder trust. Immad was somewhat skeptical, but after interviewing some amazing candidates who wanted to work for us to use Haskell, he's really liked it. Development was pretty simple, I just created a yesod-postgres template and we got started with authentication. Are you asking about something specific?
- craigsmansion 8y ago
  Thanks for your reply. My question wasn't specific, more of a general approach, like how to find people and how to get started with development, etc. So a small team with technically capable people with I guess little outside interference, that makes sense. I guess I was hoping for a good approach on how to make Haskell/ML/<other sane but not mainstream language> palatable to decision people who aren't all that technically inclined.
  - MaxGabriel 8y ago
    Hopefully Mercury can be a success story you can cite :)
    - craigsmansion 8y ago
      I hope so. A backend using Haskell sure would be a selling point for me. I shudder to think of the software that is currently used by many financial firms to handle backend interactions. Best of luck!
- ignoramous 8y ago
  Offtopic but I really find this haskell rant by Steve Yegge hilarious https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers... I also came across a post from immad [0] on hiring for startups, and it looks like you guys have a high bar for tech talent anyway so using Haskell shouldn't hurt. I wish you the best. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120808074423/http://stdout.heyzap.com/2012/07/25/how-to-ace-a-startup-engineering-interview-part-1/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120808074423/http://stdout.hey...