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Can you help me understand which kind of projects use Haskell language? Do we have many long term jobs for Haskell developers?

• a-saleh 7y ago
  So, I have recently been at Zurihac, attended by ~500 people. From what I have seen, there have been roughly 4 groups: * people running their verified-contracts on blockchain strartups with haskell stack * people interested in GHC as a compiler (i.e. developing new extensions for their phd theses) * people doing consulting projects * people running their company on haskell because they like the stack Some projects were really interesting, like a a haskell-inspired language that is compiled to VHDL, or various use-cases for Dhall (typesafe alternative to i.e. yaml, that supports functions, but isn't turing complete) I still have on my todo-list "Do at least one PR for Pandoc!" as that is a haskell project that seems to have nice entry-level issues :) And I know there are teams in FAANG that use haskell, but I don't think they hire too many people :-)
• ex3xu 7y ago
  There's a pretty good outline of which kinds of projects Haskell is well suited for by Gabriel Gonzalez here: https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md In terms of long-term jobs, I think learning concepts from statically-typed functional programming language will improve your code quality (read: chance at sustainable employment) in general, but actual prospects are probably area dependent. I am lucky enough to live in a tech hub so there are many Angel List jobs here for Haskell and Scala, but this may not be the experience for every city.