>Personally Ive been in the industry for roughly 20 years and I’ve yet to meet anyone IRL who has even dabbled in Haskell.

See that's the bubble ;) If you work at a company who makes archival, language-detection and ocr you will see C/C++ Haskell and OCaml..well and perl in no time.

http://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

https://serokell.io/blog/top-software-written-in-haskell

> See that's the bubble ;) If you work at a company who makes archival, language-detection and ocr you will see C/C++ Haskell and OCaml..well and perl in no time.

I think your scenario sounds a lot more like a bubble. It's certainly my experience that very few people have encountered Haskell whether in a university setting or a professional setting. Yes, there are some niches where Haskell is "not rare" (especially the programming language theory corner of computer science departments), but in general I think it's quite rare.

>I think your scenario sounds a lot more like a bubble.

Depends on the job you have, and how far you go out of your bubble.

>but in general I think it's quite rare.

Like Fortran...but not if you work at Cern.

And Cobol...but not if you work at a Finance institute.

And PL/1...but not if you work for IBM.

Whether or not something is rare globally doesn't depend on whether or not it's rare locally. I think most folks at Cern could agree that Fortran is not widely used even if they use it regularly and many others in their field use it regularly. Indeed, Fortran can be rare even though it's likely used more frequently than many programmers are aware!