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Please note the "we had to pick the best of multiple candidates". Easy to hire haskellteers, but Haskell shops are not many. You would probably find more Clojure roles, but they…
by waffletower · Sep 25, 2026
In many cases it's possible to write Haskell that runs as fast as a given C implementation. However the result will usually not be idiomatic Haskell.
by sjakobi · Sep 25, 2026
This is an interesting hypothesis to test. Depending on the embedding model, such less frequently encountered character sequences in the coding domain could indeed produce less…
by jmaker · Sep 25, 2026
For what it’s worth I recently decided to learn Haskell for fun and to keep my brain alive since work turned into a prompt factory. Fable has made an excellent tutor. Maybe it’s…
by eunoia · Sep 25, 2026
I’m really happy to hear that. I wish Haskell were more widely adopted and more generally accepted as a solid enterprise choice without the bus factor. I can confirm that the ap…
by jmaker · Sep 25, 2026
Hiring for Haskell is very easy, unless you need to hire more than 100 people on the spot, or don't offer remote. I've been doing Haskell hiring for 10 years, with more than 50…
by nh2 · Sep 25, 2026
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Haskell is a general-purpose, statically typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Haskell pioneered several programming language features including type classes for type-safe operator overloading and monadic input/output (IO). It is named after logician Haskell Curry. Haskell's main implementation is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). Read more on Wikipedia