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Re:The New Haskell.org by skrebbel on Sunday February 15, 2015 @05:34AM (#9052277)
I know Amsterdam startup http://www.silk.co has their entire backend written in Haskell. I'm not sure they deploy in weekends though.

Their CEO Salar told me that that, among other things, it gives them a hiring edge. People move to Amsterdam from all kinds of places just so they can write Haskell professionally.

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Re:The New Haskell.org by mbrock on Sunday February 15, 2015 @07:51AM (#9052472)
As someone who moved to Amsterdam to write Haskell (and JavaScript) for Silk, I can confirm that the combination of a beautiful bike-friendly European city, a Haskell backend, and exceedingly cool co-workers makes for a very pleasant working environment.

I'm off on other adventures now, but I have no skepticism about deploying Haskell in production. Yeah, it's still a bit obscure, but if you're looking for smart and eager programmers, Haskell is good bait.

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Re:The New Haskell.org by sfvisser on Sunday February 15, 2015 @06:36AM (#9052374)
No we usually don't deploy in weekends. Only if we break stuff just before the weekend. :)
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Re:The New Haskell.org by skrebbel on Sunday February 15, 2015 @06:42AM (#9052387)
Indeed! So you didn't deploy Haskell in the last 24h so you don't count :-)
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Re:The New Haskell.org by tormeh on Sunday February 15, 2015 @07:57AM (#9052489)
My impression is that there's nothing wrong with Amsterdam. Nice and liberal under a good state.
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