[thot_experiment]

My bestie works at this company and looking from the outside they have a good engineering culture. I do think Haskell is the right tool for the job, and they are playing to it's strengths, but part of me wonders if a lot of their success is attributable to the place just being well run in general.

[meken]

> but part of me wonders if a lot of their success is attributable to the place just being well run in general

That was my sense reading the article - that the author would be running a successful engineering org using any language really.

[ironmagma]

That would not run counter to the popular (whether true or not) idea that by using functional programming languages you filter for a higher quality labor pool / applicant pool.

[spopejoy]

That wouldn't apply here, since as the article says they hire "generalists, and most of them have never written a line of Haskell before joining."

In any case, I think the "Haskell tax" concept (where you can pay well-paid programmers less if you have a Haskell shop) is stale by now. Rust attracted away a lot of FP-ers, plus mainstream langs like C++, Java and even Typescript got smarter. Haskell's biggest problem by far is the tiny labor pool, which Mercury seems to wisely avoid.

[sn9]

The post explicitly makes the case for the filtering playing a role. Ctrl-F "Python".

[runevault]

The version I've always heard is just well designed but less popular languages, but the ones I can think of were all functional (Haskell/F#/OCaml/Clojure/Elm/Erlang)