Is there any money in Haskell programming?
Wait! Don't delete this e-mail yet! I don't mean to imply that Haskell is only worth learning if you can make money with it, or to say that it is impossible to make a profitable program with it. I was just wondering what (if any) commercial, educational, or government sectors use Haskell, and if there is anyone on this list who makes a living in some way writing Haskell code. -- frigidcode.com indicium.us
I've seen this question asked a few times and the usual link provided
is http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry. Suffice to
say, there are people writing software that makes money in Haskell.
I know I'd jump at the chance to have "Haskell Programmer" in my job
description, but at the moment I'm constrained to using it to build my
own tools. I think this is becoming an increasingly common trend :-)
I'd interested to see if Haskell's use in industry blossoms soon,
since awareness seems to be growing larger and larger.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Christopher Howard
Wait! Don't delete this e-mail yet! I don't mean to imply that Haskell is only worth learning if you can make money with it, or to say that it is impossible to make a profitable program with it. I was just wondering what (if any) commercial, educational, or government sectors use Haskell, and if there is anyone on this list who makes a living in some way writing Haskell code.
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:26:21 +0800
Lyndon Maydwell
I know I'd jump at the chance to have "Haskell Programmer" in my job description, but at the moment I'm constrained to using it to build my own tools. I think this is becoming an increasingly common trend :-)
I do this as well. I believe it's a normal part of a programming
languages evolution. It's how I got started writing Python back around
version 1.3 or so, when Perl was the only scripting language most
people had ever heard of. Look how far Python has come since then.
Christopher Howard
Haskell, and if there is anyone on this list who makes a living in some way writing Haskell code.
I do, sort of. I'm a researcher, and part of my job is to build a rough proof-of-concept for any idea that looks promising. I can program in any language I want, and I choose Haskell. There does seem to be a fair amount of Haskell in the financial sector.
I spend my life writing one-off data analysis code. No one cares what it is
written in as long as it works. I enjoy writing a lot of the tools in
Haskell. They often require less debugging than when I write in other
languages. Sometimes it takes me longer in Haskell though...still learning!
Tim
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Amy de Buitléir
Christopher Howard
writes: Haskell, and if there is anyone on this list who makes a living in some way writing Haskell code.
I do, sort of. I'm a researcher, and part of my job is to build a rough proof-of-concept for any idea that looks promising. I can program in any language I want, and I choose Haskell.
There does seem to be a fair amount of Haskell in the financial sector.
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