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by the_af 3661 days ago
> Both Haskell and Scala are on my list of languages that I love to experiment with on my free time but that I think are not ready for mission critical stuff

I find this curious, since both languages have been successfully used for mission critical stuff, and in particular Scala is deployed for mission-critical enterprise applications. At my day job, for example, but this is starting to look even more common, judging by the recruitment emails I get.