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That would not run counter to the popular (whether true or not) idea that by using functional programming languages you filter for a higher quality labor pool /

• runevault 5mo ago
  The version I've always heard is just well designed but less popular languages, but the ones I can think of were all functional (Haskell/F#/OCaml/Clojure/Elm/Erlang)
• spopejoy 5mo ago
  That wouldn't apply here, since as the article says they hire "generalists, and most of them have never written a line of Haskell before joining." In any case, I think the "Haskell tax" concept (where you can pay well-paid programmers less if you have a Haskell shop) is stale by now. Rust attracted away a lot of FP-ers, plus mainstream langs like C++, Java and even Typescript got smarter. Haskell's biggest problem by far is the tiny labor pool, which Mercury seems to wisely avoid.
  • sn9 5mo ago
    The post explicitly makes the case for the filtering playing a role. Ctrl-F "Python".