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0 pointsMaxGabriel6y ago0 comments

We were a team of 3, with the CEO and myself technical, so ultimately it came down to just co-founder trust. Immad was somewhat skeptical, but after interviewing some amazing candidates who wanted to work for us to use Haskell, he's really liked it.

Development was pretty simple, I just created a yesod-postgres template and we got started with authentication. Are you asking about something specific?

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craigsmansion6y ago

Thanks for your reply. My question wasn't specific, more of a general approach, like how to find people and how to get started with development, etc.

So a small team with technically capable people with I guess little outside interference, that makes sense. I guess I was hoping for a good approach on how to make Haskell/ML/<other sane but not mainstream language> palatable to decision people who aren't all that technically inclined.

MaxGabrielOP6y ago

Hopefully Mercury can be a success story you can cite :)

craigsmansion6y ago

I hope so. A backend using Haskell sure would be a selling point for me. I shudder to think of the software that is currently used by many financial firms to handle backend interactions.

Best of luck!

ignoramous6y ago

Offtopic but I really find this haskell rant by Steve Yegge hilarious https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers...

I also came across a post from immad [0] on hiring for startups, and it looks like you guys have a high bar for tech talent anyway so using Haskell shouldn't hurt. I wish you the best.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120808074423/http://stdout.hey...

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0 pointsMaxGabriel6y ago0 comments

Development was pretty simple, I just created a yesod-postgres template and we got started with authentication. Are you asking about something specific?

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craigsmansion6y ago

Thanks for your reply. My question wasn't specific, more of a general approach, like how to find people and how to get started with development, etc.

MaxGabrielOP6y ago

Hopefully Mercury can be a success story you can cite :)

craigsmansion6y ago

I hope so. A backend using Haskell sure would be a selling point for me. I shudder to think of the software that is currently used by many financial firms to handle backend interactions.

Best of luck!

ignoramous6y ago

Offtopic but I really find this haskell rant by Steve Yegge hilarious https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers...

I also came across a post from immad [0] on hiring for startups, and it looks like you guys have a high bar for tech talent anyway so using Haskell shouldn't hurt. I wish you the best.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120808074423/http://stdout.hey...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse