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Re:What programming languages are used late at night? by kobeya on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:27PM (#14149675)
I'm pretty sure the biggest player using Haskell is Microsoft, which develops and maintains Haskell in the first place...
Re:What programming languages are used late at night? by ookdatnog on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:55PM (#14151172)
I don't think that's accurate. Microsoft has a role in the development and maintenance of Haskell because they currently employ Simon P. Jones, one of the big driving forces behind Haskell, as a researcher.

However, new versions of Haskell (the language) are created by temporary committees (which are not composed by Microsoft).

GHC (the main implementation) is an open source project with developers from different organizations. According to this page (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC), SPJ is the only one employed by Microsoft. He is one of the core contributors and he owns a large part of the code base, but not to such an extent that GHC can be called a Microsoft project even if Microsoft would want that. Haskell is not a MS product, it has been under development since well before SPJ was employed by MS.

Finally, I'm not aware of MS funding the project beyond paying SPJ's wage.

Re:What programming languages are used late at night? by bluejekyll on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @02:36PM (#14150471)
I though MS was pushing towards F#. Is there any indication they plan to focus more on one or the other?
Re:What programming languages are used late at night? by naasking on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:39PM (#14151037)
They're not focusing on Haskell commercially, but in Microsoft Research where they employ some of the main Haskell devs. A lot of their research has gone into F#, C# and .NET libraries (like LINQ).