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by bojo 2196 days ago
My company writes and supports a lot of custom Haskell software for our parent, an ISP up in Alaska.

What we gain is a high level of confidence in our business logic rules due to strict typing, fewer overall tests, and by avoiding a few small gotchas uncrashable runtimes.

Not to say it doesn’t come without problems. Poor IDE integration (I personally don’t care), questionable documentation at times, and a steep rewrite your brain learning curve.

Some posts I have written.

https://www.alasconnect.com/2018/10/02/introducing-haskell-c...

https://www.alasconnect.com/2018/10/04/productive-haskell-en...

http://blog.bojo.wtf/2020/04/15/is-haskell-a-bad-choice/