[Haskell-cafe] How hard is it to start a web startup using Haskell?

[Yves Parès]

> 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 at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez at 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 at snoyman.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gracjan Polak <gracjanpolak at 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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