3 ms·
The author of Real World Haskell has a startup that uses Haskell. I don't remember the exact quote, but it is in part to weed out crappy developers. http://func
by apgwoz 13y ago
The author of Real World Haskell has a startup that uses Haskell. I don't remember the exact quote, but it is in part to weed out crappy developers. http://functionaltalks.org/2013/06/10/brian-osullivan-running-a-startup-on-haskell/ http://functionaltalks.org/2013/06/10/brian-osullivan-runnin...
Jane St. Capital also does this to some extent by using OCaml, but I don't think that was the primary motivation.
- hvs 13y agoPG has made similar comments about the use of Lisp. It doesn't really scale to the IBMs and Googles of the world, though.
- tel 13y agoThis is key. If you think you'll want to or have to hire an 800 person staff then you're going to lose developer quality and will be served by picking languages which are already common on the market.
- Snoptic 13y agoNot really. MailRank was a toy project that got him acquihired at FB because bos is a genius regardless.