[estefan]

Nice article. I find FP incredibly elegant and I'd like to learn Haskell, but every time I search, there are never any jobs in it, so it seems like Scala is the better choice for where I live...

Speaking of which, I found "Functional Programming in Scala" excellent for teaching someone with an imperative background how to "think functionally". Monads are explained in an easy to understand way. I can imagine that without reading that book I'd have been looking at a couple of years of coding before I started to see the abstractions, etc. By contrast "Learn You a Haskell" lost me part way through both times I tried to read it...

[akurilin]

We used functionaljobs.com for hiring our very latest Haskell developer (ex Scala guy) at Front Row, check it out, it should at the very have a few interesting openings on it.

Also, companies actively using and recruiting for Haskell are now starting to join the Commercial Haskell SIG, so if you want to poke around, you can find them here: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell#readm...

[mightybyte]

If you wait for the jobs to come, you'll be late to the party. Very few people will want to hire someone who doesn't know Haskell for a Haskell development position. Learn it now so you'll be up to speed when more jobs start appearing. Or better yet, learn it and then create the Haskell jobs yourself.

[akurilin]

Your last sentence is basically what we did. It's hard, but it's doable.