Haskell Production Use
Discussions focus on the practical adoption of Haskell in startups, web development, and industry applications like Facebook's spam filtering, debating its suitability for production, popularity among developers, and real-world examples.
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Is anyone using Haskell as their main programming language in their (web) startups?
Any ideas why they picked Haskell?
Haskell is suitable for, and designed for, bleeding edge experiments, not for practical usage. Its low popularity says very little about the "market penetration" of better engineered functional languages.
Does this mean that Facebook is using Haskell more these days?
How many average joe developer do you see adopting Haskell in the industry?
Are there any examples of Haskell being used to do anything really cool and useful to the average programmer. To me it seems as an esoteric language that I would simply not bother using because no one uses it and deploying it would be a headache.
An answer to the question "what useful thing has been build with Haskell"?
Haskell is significantly less popular than some other languages, but it has a non-trivial amount of people using it in serious applications in industry (e.g., a large part of Facebook’s spam filtering system is written in Haskell [1]), as well as for some reasonably popular open source projects like Pandoc. Furthermore, Haskell has a rich ecosystem of open source libraries on Hackage.How does this not qualify it as a language with practical applications? Frankly, your comment comes across as
Haskell doesn't deserve it's own bullet point yet? It's used at Facebook, I don't think esoteric is a fair classification anymore!
Too late. The people are making money with Haskell for quite a few years by now.