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I've worked on a Haskell + Rust project that followed roughly the dynamic you're describing and was pretty happy with it. I wrote some simple tooling that let u

I've worked on a Haskell + Rust project that followed roughly the dynamic you're describing and was pretty happy with it. I wrote some simple tooling that let us share algebraic types between the two to manage our interfaces and it worked pretty well. In our case we needed to serialize/deserialize data between our components so the interfaces were at a bit of a distance, but, in principle, it would have been totally doable to extend the same kind of tooling to provide a legitimately easy-to-use FFI layer between the two languages. Haskell is a bit of a tricky language organizationally for mostly social/political reasons, but if I end up starting my own company in the future, Haskell + Rust is definitely the tech stack I'd lean towards.

Qworg 3y ago
I made the call between Haskell and Rust for my fintech startup. I chose Rust when I realized how few Haskell programmers there were available to hire - at 20 engineers, we'd be one of the largest shops on the West Coast of the US AFAIK. That said, we were one of the largest Rust shops outside of the FAANGs, but Rust was straightforward to teach to C/C++ folks.
- tikhonj 3y ago
  We actually had the opposite experience in hiring for our Haskell team: it was substantially easier to find legitimately strong engineers for Haskell than for other teams using Python and Scala. I figure it comes down to two things: 1. A lot more people want to do Haskell than there are Haskell jobs 2. Haskell is an easy way to signal (show not tell) that our team is willing to do things differently—especially important because our team was at Target, which did not have much of a reputation as a tech employer! We didn't try hiring Rust programmers because the existing Haskell folks were more than happy to pick it up. So making hiring easier is one of the reasons I'd want to use Haskell, counterintuitively!
  - Qworg 3y ago
    ! Amazing. I had seen so many strong Haskell teams that Rust seemed like the play, for the same reasoning. I'm glad it worked out for both of us.

Qworg 3y ago

I made the call between Haskell and Rust for my fintech startup. I chose Rust when I realized how few Haskell programmers there were available to hire - at 20 engineers, we'd be one of the largest shops on the West Coast of the US AFAIK. That said, we were one of the largest Rust shops outside of the FAANGs, but Rust was straightforward to teach to C/C++ folks.

tikhonj 3y ago
We actually had the opposite experience in hiring for our Haskell team: it was substantially easier to find legitimately strong engineers for Haskell than for other teams using Python and Scala. I figure it comes down to two things: 1. A lot more people want to do Haskell than there are Haskell jobs 2. Haskell is an easy way to signal (show not tell) that our team is willing to do things differently—especially important because our team was at Target, which did not have much of a reputation as a tech employer! We didn't try hiring Rust programmers because the existing Haskell folks were more than happy to pick it up. So making hiring easier is one of the reasons I'd want to use Haskell, counterintuitively!
- Qworg 3y ago
  ! Amazing. I had seen so many strong Haskell teams that Rust seemed like the play, for the same reasoning. I'm glad it worked out for both of us.