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https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell Among the companies listed are Facebook and Micro

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell Among the companies listed are Facebook and Microsoft. This list may not be long or exhaustive but it does show a number of companies who are publicly willing to say they use Haskell. It was started in January. I can personally attest to several companies I have worked with not mentioned in the list which also use Haskell internally. Haskell is not always the bread and butter of the business software. However, it often has an extremely strong presence for developing internal tools, compilers for DSL's, and (micro)services for various tasks.

pron 11y ago
> as an extremely strong presence for developing internal tools I wouldn't go there. Awk has an extremely strong presence in internal tools; Haskell has some minor presence if you squint hard enough. If the unconventional language promising to help tackle software complexity in this modern age is used as an Awk replacement (or TCL, or Perl) then what are we doing here? The real story is that Haskell may well be an excellent first step towards the future of programming and a great breakthrough -- or it may be a dead end -- we simply don't know because it's never really been tried. Putting it in the ring with Awk or Perl -- where it's losing, BTW -- is an insult to both Haskell and Awk. Using Haskell as one more language for "small stuff" is not using it at all, because that's not what it's meant to do, and it's certainly not where it can fulfill its promise.