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by 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