I am attending a Shonan meeting at the end of Sept/beginning of October in Japan. I am going to extend my stay for a few days after the meeting with the aim of connecting with Haskellers and organizations that use Haskell in Japan. My understanding is that there’s a fairly robust Haskell community there, so I’d like to connect with that community!
My request: do you know of companies that use Haskell in Japan? If so, could you email me jmct@haskell.foundation with the name of the company or a person who might be a good contact?
If you have other ideas of how I might be able to make connections to the Haskell community while I’m there, I’m happy to hear them! I’m thinking that even a one-off Haskell meetup while I’m in Tokyo could be worthwhile.
Thank you for mentioning me! Unfortunately, I and most of the Haskellers quitted DeepFlow last year, and I don’t know much about the current status of the company (EDITED: I had worked for the company for ~5 years).
Although I am now working for Rust company, I am still writing Haskell personally and academically. So, if the connection to industry doesn’t matter much, I would love to cooperate!
Recently, I live in my home town, not Tokyo.
However, by change, I will stay in Tokyo in the week.
Is Shonan meeting between Sep 29 and Oct 2?
I have to take the last flight from Tokyo to my town on Oct 3 at the latest.
So, possiblely we will be able to meet on Oct 3?
I have already shared this information via slack of Haskell JP.
Some Haskellers are interested but hesitated due to English skill.
I would propose to use AI translation if necessary.
Note:
Due to corona, the Haskell community in Japan got inactive.
The Haskellers in Gree went to Google if I remember correctly.
Tsuru capital adopted Rust instead Haskell, I believe.
Hi @jmct — I’m Junji Hashimoto at GREE (Tokyo). We use Haskell for test harnesses for “Flare” (our middleware) and to automate DynamoDB capacity planning on AWS Lambda. For contacts: ex-GREE Haskeller @beketa (now at Google) and the Haskell JP Slack.
