[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Usage

Wed Nov 15 20:43:05 UTC 2023

I'll just add that there are many companies that use Haskell in a
professional setting (including the one I work for!) You can see a few at
the bottom of the Haskell Foundation's website: https://haskell.foundation/.

It's certainly an odd remark by your professor; but it also likely comes
from their own experience; everyone has lived life in their own different
way; maybe this person has just been exposed to more commercial Erlang than
me; almost certainly :) So I would take the comment more with curiosity; to
learn *why* they feel Erlang is more suitable; it's probably a good
opportunity to learn something interesting!

That said, I do think Haskell has an "academic" vibe that it will do well
to shake off at some point!

--
Noon

On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 20:25, Adrian Cochrane <adrian at openwork.nz> wrote:

> Hi from New Zealand!
>
> My Haskell usage is more hobbyist than academic or industrial, but I've
> got a massive personal project written in Haskell (a browser engine).
> And I'm actively for one of my upcoming contracts (a converter between
> metadata formats) to use Haskell!
>
> I find I'm more productive in Haskell, and that my code is of generally
> higher quality. Its certainly not a popular language (neither is Erlang)
> though, which I have to actively plan for when suggesting it for a
> project. But given the dominance of C/C++, does that count for much?
>
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> > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:27:57 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
> > From: Henrique Caldeira <h.caldeira at ua.pt>
> > To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> > Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Usage
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> > Good Evening from Portugal,
> >
> > I write to you about the usage of Haskell because I had a professor
> recommending me Erlang instead because Haskell was "more for academic
> purposes", which left me wondering if all my time spent was spent only for
> curiosity sake.
> >
> > I want to know how true my professor's statement is.
> >
> > I am very passionate about Haskell, although I admit the ecosystem can
> be confusing sometimes (for example, when to use cabal or stack, which
> versions of packages to use in order to avoid conflicts, or simply
> installing them through nixos or arch can be a learning process).
> >
> > Would love to hear your thoughts about all of this and thank you with
> all my heart.
> >
> > Lastly, all these wonderings are asked in a curious, "wanting to learn
> more" mindset.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Henrique Caldeira
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> > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:36:18 -0500
> > From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> > To: Henrique Caldeira <h.caldeira at ua.pt>
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> > Yesod (https://yesodweb.com), Servant (https://www.servant.dev), Pandoc
> (
> > https://pandoc.com), HLedger (https://hledger.org), and XMonad (
> > https://xmonad.org), among others, argue against Haskell being only an
> > academic language.
> >
> > (I'm the principal maintainer of xmonad, but not involved with the other
> > packages.)
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 4:28 PM Henrique Caldeira <h.caldeira at ua.pt>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Good Evening from Portugal,
> >>
> >> I write to you about the usage of Haskell because I had a professor
> >> recommending me Erlang instead because Haskell was "more for academic
> >> purposes", which left me wondering if all my time spent was spent only
> for
> >> curiosity sake.
> >>
> >> I want to know how true my professor's statement is.
> >>
> >> I am very passionate about Haskell, although I admit the ecosystem can
> be
> >> confusing sometimes (for example, when to use cabal or stack, which
> >> versions of packages to use in order to avoid conflicts, or simply
> >> installing them through nixos or arch can be a learning process).
> >>
> >> Would love to hear your thoughts about all of this and thank you with
> all
> >> my heart.
> >>
> >> Lastly, all these wonderings are asked in a curious, "wanting to learn
> >> more" mindset.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Henrique Caldeira
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Noon van der Silk, ن

http://silky.github.io/

"My programming language is kindness."
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