Re:OCamlers' critiques of Haskell
by marcosdumay on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:55PM
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> I'm pretty sure if Haskell does be accepted by the industry, it will have the exactly same dumb programmers using it. So, what's the point?
That's a property of all niche languages. Yes, if they get mainstream, they'll lose it, but until then it makes for an easy way to bias in a good way the set of people you could hire for a position.
If we assume companies do not filter well their hires, or that filtering them is costly (a huge "if"), it becomes a competitive advantage. And, as most competitive advantages, if enough people use it, it goes away.
That's a property of all niche languages. Yes, if they get mainstream, they'll lose it, but until then it makes for an easy way to bias in a good way the set of people you could hire for a position.
If we assume companies do not filter well their hires, or that filtering them is costly (a huge "if"), it becomes a competitive advantage. And, as most competitive advantages, if enough people use it, it goes away.