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Haskel is being in used in quite a few fintech companies.

• kajaktum 3y ago
  I am curious how that is useful at all? I imagine prototyping and the set of libraries that you have is quite limited compared to something like Python. You're also limiting yourself to a much smaller pool of developers which have to intersect both finance and Haskell! I suppose that last point is an advantage of some sort since that filters out a huge portion of "normie" applications.
  • fuzzybear3965 3y ago
    My understanding is "safety". You need to cover all cases of enums, you can't implicitly coerce a number to a string, you can ensure that there's no side-effects in company code, etc.
  • jose_zap 3y ago
    I work at one of those fintech companies using Haskell in production. Hiring was actually Haskell’s strong side. I managed to hire 6 engineers in only one month. There were more than 50 applicants to the position. Just the idea of using Haskell in production is attractive to many. It’s been a great experience overall. I worked at a python company before this one and it’s been refreshing not having unexpected runtime errors. Moving money around requires more robustness than your typical app.