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Monoid Mary
@argumatronic
how does this "Haskell isn't practical, no one uses it in industry" thing keep coming up on the /r/haskell subreddit ffs my dudes, if Facebook, Target, and a few of the biggest financial institutions on earth aren't "industry" i do not know what you want
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Chris Smith
@cdsmithus
Hate to disagree, but existence of Haskell jobs doesn't make it a practical language for finding job prospects. Jobs exist, of course, but at any job level, it's much easier to find roles on projects w/ Python, Java, Ruby, JS, C++, etc. And yet, people should learn it anyway.
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Monoid Mary
@argumatronic
the reasonableness of the statement "Haskell isn't practical" may depend somewhat on whether it's a statement about learning Haskell or about wanting to use Haskell for a project or startup; sometimes the flavor is "it won't be fast enough" or "it won't scale well enough"
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Hahh yup. Even more eclectic than Haskell! We use it to build Prince - a HTML+CSS layout engine that targets PDF. Been around for a long time, but I’m super impressed at how nice the codebase is. Can still make changes without fear!
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