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jet.com used it heavily for backend dev, grew quickly, were acquired by Walmart, 560million+ in funding: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet https://ww
by firlefans 5y ago
jet.com used it heavily for backend dev, grew quickly, were acquired by Walmart, 560million+ in funding:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet
Even if you'd consider them the Jane Street of F#, it's a counterexample to your argument.
- thrower123 5y agoHasn't Walmart rewritten all the Jet stuff in python and c# by now? At least that's what I was being told five years ago.
- pjmlp 5y agoHow much of the jet.com code is still in use nowadays? Having been through a couple of merges during my lifetime, I guess "it depends".
- nojito 5y agoNot really. https://careers.walmart.com/us/jobs/WD635714-senior-software-engineer https://careers.walmart.com/us/jobs/WD635714-senior-software... >Top-notch programming skills, with an interest in functional programming languages. We use F# right now but are transitioning to Java. It's still used for the warehouse distribution team though