All of the pretension that comes with knowing one of the functional languages that has a community that pretends to know math, and they end up working retail. Ow.
Joking diss aside, though, I definitely feel for people who love languages with limited reach.
(Also, I think GitHub hired a few people explicitly for Haskell, which is worth mentioning because Microsoft is vaguely more reputable than most of the companies listed in this thread.)
the act of trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are
Some irony in your comment. I meant exactly what was said.
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(Or really, just combine "cryptocurrency" or "cryptocurrencies" with any negative word and throw it into search and you'll see the point.)
All cryptocurrency has a serious reputation problem right now, and it's probably not going to go away for the considerable future.
It doesn't mean that the company has a product.
Another trend (that I don't particularly like) is all the blockchain startups using Haskell.