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Interesting, from Google trends, it seems that Haskell is very popular in China, compared to other regions. I wonder what can be the reason for this.

by xvilka 7y ago

Guthur 7y ago
Competitive advantage. By inflating the search results they'll encourage the competition to spend inordinate amounts of time learning cat theory and trying to get the compiler to understand their code. In the mean time they'll hack it together in Perl. Sorry for the inappropriate about at humour, I couldn't resist.
gtycomb 7y ago
Consider that fact that prime-minister of Singapore knows Haskell by now http://wadler.blogspot.com/2015/04/prime-minister-of-singapore-plans-to.html http://wadler.blogspot.com/2015/04/prime-minister-of-singapo... He is already quite good with C++ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime-minister-of-singapore-shares-his-c-code-for-sudoku-solver/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...
- 7thaccount 7y ago
  Audrey Tang is a Tawaainese Minister (not sure of what.. computing?) and wrote one of the first Perl6 implementations using Haskell I think.
  - audreyt 7y ago
    "Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation, Open Government and Youth Engagement".
    - 7thaccount 7y ago
      Thanks for the clarification Audrey! Quick question...do you still actively code? If so, which technologies do you use? I assume a government politician (even for a very technical role) has little time for such things, so how do you stay up to date?
      - audreyt 7y ago
        I still actively code. Most of the gov tech we deploy in Taiwan is based on civic tech, re-packaged to run on sandstorm.io (CodiMD is a good example). We also rely heavily on Pol.is and Rocket.chat. Other than that, a lot of it is just automating chores — booking my office hour appointments, maintaining sayit.pdis.nat.gov.tw (part of the radical transparency protocol visit.pdis.tw), etc. Non-work-related projects such as moedict.tw and Hackage/CPAN modules are mostly in maintenance mode, with occasional releases based on pull requests from the community.
        7thaccount 7y ago
        Thanks for the reply and best of luck in your endeavors! I've never been very good with Haskell, but I may jump into Perl6 (Raku) soon.
Mathnerd314 7y ago
Google is blocked in China, so I suspect that there are very few data points for Trends to draw on, as filtering the data to China, the graph seems raggedy, something like 4 searches/week. It also shows the spike in Haskell only occurred this week and says it is partial/incomplete data. So overall, probably just a data processing/extrapolation bug. That's not to say that Haskell isn't used in China; there is a visualization group in Didi (Chinese Uber) that uses it, Haskell/FP user groups, university classes, etc. But there's no obvious reason that Haskell would have massively shot up in the past 3 days.

Interesting, from Google trends, it seems that Haskell is very popular in China, compared to other regions. I wonder what can be the reason for this.

by xvilka 7y ago

Interesting, from Google trends, it seems that Haskell is very popular in China, compared to other regions. I wonder what can be the reason for this.

Guthur 7y ago

Competitive advantage. By inflating the search results they'll encourage the competition to spend inordinate amounts of time learning cat theory and trying to get the compiler to understand their code. In the mean time they'll hack it together in Perl. Sorry for the inappropriate about at humour, I couldn't resist.

gtycomb 7y ago

Consider that fact that prime-minister of Singapore knows Haskell by now http://wadler.blogspot.com/2015/04/prime-minister-of-singapore-plans-to.html http://wadler.blogspot.com/2015/04/prime-minister-of-singapo... He is already quite good with C++ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime-minister-of-singapore-shares-his-c-code-for-sudoku-solver/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...

7thaccount 7y ago
Audrey Tang is a Tawaainese Minister (not sure of what.. computing?) and wrote one of the first Perl6 implementations using Haskell I think.
- audreyt 7y ago
  "Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation, Open Government and Youth Engagement".
  - 7thaccount 7y ago
    Thanks for the clarification Audrey! Quick question...do you still actively code? If so, which technologies do you use? I assume a government politician (even for a very technical role) has little time for such things, so how do you stay up to date?
    - audreyt 7y ago
      I still actively code. Most of the gov tech we deploy in Taiwan is based on civic tech, re-packaged to run on sandstorm.io (CodiMD is a good example). We also rely heavily on Pol.is and Rocket.chat. Other than that, a lot of it is just automating chores — booking my office hour appointments, maintaining sayit.pdis.nat.gov.tw (part of the radical transparency protocol visit.pdis.tw), etc. Non-work-related projects such as moedict.tw and Hackage/CPAN modules are mostly in maintenance mode, with occasional releases based on pull requests from the community.
      - 7thaccount 7y ago
        Thanks for the reply and best of luck in your endeavors! I've never been very good with Haskell, but I may jump into Perl6 (Raku) soon.

Mathnerd314 7y ago

Google is blocked in China, so I suspect that there are very few data points for Trends to draw on, as filtering the data to China, the graph seems raggedy, something like 4 searches/week. It also shows the spike in Haskell only occurred this week and says it is partial/incomplete data. So overall, probably just a data processing/extrapolation bug. That's not to say that Haskell isn't used in China; there is a visualization group in Didi (Chinese Uber) that uses it, Haskell/FP user groups, university classes, etc. But there's no obvious reason that Haskell would have massively shot up in the past 3 days.