Re:Elm at Rakuten
by tmm84 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:42PM
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The part of the article that I was waiting for was how they got it adopted in Japan. Having worked in Japan for almost a decade I can easily say it is not an easy feat to change Japanese corporate mindset when it comes to a programming language or environment. I wonder what the elevator sales pitch was. Other than that I think this was a great article.
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Even though Rakuten is a Japanese company and all this happened in Japan, the department where it happened is almost entirely not Japanese, so the "elevator sales pitch" has nothing to do with Japan. There were already several developers that were on board with Functional Programming, this is what helped a lot.
As a matter of Japan, there is a very lively Elm community and I know few companies that use Elm in production.
Also, I heard that the Japanese academic world is active in Functional Programming research