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by kreetx 2823 days ago
Unless there will be many capable developers who stay. If you're the single guy who has a clue then yes, don't do this if you don't have a reasonable plan for those who stay.

It also sounds like maintaining a haskell code base is some rocket science. It is not. There are both extreme, but also conservative ways of doing things, and if you pick the conservative, then the people staying won't have that much trouble coping.

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Please don't get me wrong, I've been in programming for more than 13 yrs, started with C++ and moved to Java later in my career and that Haskell code is of top notch quality, it does what it was written for very well and if I remember correctly, it never caused any prod incidents, its just that the devs didn't stick around, one of them went to Uni and others to greener pastures and we found it hard to extend/enhance with new functionalities that business was asking for.