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by asdvasdascac 523 days ago
> Probably egged on by people telling them they had a much larger hiring pool if they went with JS (which is almost certainly true).

There are many VC funded companies here. How many of you felt pressured to pick a hireable language like JS/Python because if not you couldn't deploy your investor's capital? Like, if you had presented a plan of "I'm going to need 4 graybeards that know Haskell", you'd get denied for not thinking big enough.
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sgarland 523 days ago
Interestingly, Mercury [0] is VC-backed, and their backend is entirely Haskell. In an interview [1], their CTO mentions that it’s actually quite easy to hire for Haskell, as the demand is much lower than the supply, and, as he slyly puts it, “interest in Haskell acts as a decent proxy for baseline developer quality.”

So while the pool is larger for JS/TS and Python, that may not always be beneficial.

[0]: https://mercury.com

[1]: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-mercury

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