Tony Morris

Don't think people get that writing Haskell on an existing codebase for a job is vastly easier than learning it from ground up.

Disclaimer: I've never done Haskell full-time. Extrapolating from Scala.

you're spot on, fwiw. but the market forces around hiring FPers also makes this all hard (love market forces)

everyone wants badass FPers yesterday, not to wait 3 weeks to train some good ones, it's incredibly dumb

i see companies that have like 3 or 4 good Haskellers and they want more, and I'm always thinking "just train some people, omg"

That's our plan :D

Whatever I think of Elm, they take embrace and publicize this approach to great effect. OTOH convincing people Haskell is easy is *hard*.

We have a Haskell meetup in town that just won't get off the ground because of this. Literally 0 people have shown up. 5 is f'ing fantastic.