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Re:The Haskell Elephant in the Room on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:46AM (#24005754)
From my view, its less about using the technology for side projects, and more about job prospects using that language. If Haskell jobs are overwhelmingly associated with crypto, and that’s a negative association for most people, they might be less likely to invest time into learning Haskell, as they’re not interested in joining the crypto industry.
Re:GitHub Classroom on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:35AM (#23417069)
I graded for a class that took a similar approach to this - the students had a small amount of tests available to them that allowed them to iterate over the requirements for the assignment, but we had more exhaustive tests that we ran automatically. In addition to checking test completeness, we also looked at the source code itself and graded for quality of that. The automated runner handled a lot of the hard work for us, but it definitely wasn't a situation where we saw some failed unit tests and then proceeded to fail them or anything.

The system used to pull this all off is pretty interesting, I think. It's all open source: https://github.com/redkyn