> Haskell is a mature platform that provides lots of goodies that I might otherwise have to write (like the goodies I wrote in Lift including an Actors library)

I don't get it: Actors are at the core of Scala concurrency model, and are expanded for distributed programming through Akka for instance.
To me it'd be the other way around: you'd have to develop Actors in Haskell, don't you?
Or maybe you don't mean the same thing by 'Actor'?

2011/12/19 David Pollak <feeder.of.the.bears@gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm actually trying to make a list of companies and people using Haskell
for for-profit real world software development.

I'd like to know the names of those startups, if possible.

I am building http://visi.pro on Haskell.  I am doing it for a number of reasons:
  • Haskell is a mature platform that provides lots of goodies that I might otherwise have to write (like the goodies I wrote in Lift including an Actors library)
  • Haskell allows a lot of nice "things" that make building a language and associated tools easier (like laziness)
  • Haskell is a filter for team members. Just like Foursquare uses Scala as a filter for candidates in recruiting, I'm using Haskell as a filter... if you have some good Haskell open source code, it's a way to indicate to me that you're a strong developer.
 

-- Ivan

On 18 December 2011 18:42, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gracjan Polak <gracjanpolak@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The question 'How hard is it to start a technical startup with Haskell?'
>> happened a couple of times on this list. Sometimes it was in the form 'How hard
>> is to find Haskell programmers?' or 'Are there any Haskell jobs?'.
>>
>> I'd like to provide one data point as an answer:
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ngbbp/haskell_only_esigning_startup_closes_second_angel/
>>
>> Full disclosure: I'm one of two that founded this startup.
>>
>> How are others doing businesses using Haskell doing these days?
>
> I don't run a startup myself, but I know of at least three startups
> using Haskell for web development (through Yesod), and my company is
> basing its new web products on Yesod as well. I think there are plenty
> of highly qualified Haskell programmers out there, especially if
> you're willing to let someone work remotely.
>
> Michael
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