The editors of the Haskell Blog are happy to announce a new series of articles called “Haskellers from the trenches”, where we invite experienced engineers to talk about their subjects of expertise, best practices, and production tales.
Our first guest is Ian Duntan with “A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury”
I love that it highlights strengths of Haskell that are less obvious to newcomers while avoiding blind praise; it is honest about some of Haskell’s weaknesses (the largest of which, in my opinion, is its small ecosystem).
This was a fantastic article and triggered a few internal discussions on multiple topics, not least how we Haskell shops should be thinking about recruiting. Thanks very much to folks at Mercury for their candour.