I tried Haskell for 5 years

Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years by embwbam on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:26PM (#14267374)

I've been playing with it for about 5 years, started the local Haskell meetup, etc. I used it on a side project that reached beta in 2015, and on a startup at the beginning of 2016. Starting at the end of 2016 I started using it on a big contract. I had to convince the client it was a good idea, but they've been convinced by my team's productivity. All of the above were back end web services. The current project is a bunch of systems to underwrite and issue loans and involves an ML calculation (hosted on data robot).

I love it for general back end web development. I can actually solve problems so they stay solved.

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Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years by robertlagrant on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:07PM (#14267744)

I'm VERY curious about this! Backend web services not being the sexiest / most theory-requiring subject.

How did you convince the client, and why did you choose Haskell for this over, say, .NET, which throws a web service up quicker than it took me to type this? What sort of productivity are you achieving?

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