<story><title>The Haskell Elephant in the Room</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anaphor</author><text>There are also a lot of traditional finance companies using Haskell[1]. And, historically some of the people who created the language itself and have worked on GHC (and other compilers), or contributed heavily to the ecosystem have worked for traditional banks[2].&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mention them to encourage people to attack these people, but it comes off as a bit selective to focus on the people using your language for cryptocurrency when it&amp;#x27;s also used heavily by traditional fintech companies, as well as defense contractors, and even for large retail chains (Target uses it for data analysis). Facebook also uses it for their spam detection system. Why are all of these uses fine and cryptocurrency is not? And if they also aren&amp;#x27;t fine, then how should we solve this problem? Start non-profits&amp;#x2F;charities that specifically use Haskell, and somehow make those the majority of the available jobs that use it? That seems pretty infeasible unless you want to solve the broader problem of these jobs existing in the first place.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;haskell&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6p2x0p&amp;#x2F;list_of_companies_that_use_haskell&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;haskell&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6p2x0p&amp;#x2F;list_of_com...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;ekmett&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;ekmett&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;users&amp;#x2F;83805&amp;#x2F;don-stewart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;users&amp;#x2F;83805&amp;#x2F;don-stewart&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pushcx</author><text>The &amp;quot;What is happening?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;How is it happening?&amp;quot; sections of the article spend 900 words differentiating legal financial services from cryptocurrency scams.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Haskell Elephant in the Room</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anaphor</author><text>There are also a lot of traditional finance companies using Haskell[1]. And, historically some of the people who created the language itself and have worked on GHC (and other compilers), or contributed heavily to the ecosystem have worked for traditional banks[2].&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mention them to encourage people to attack these people, but it comes off as a bit selective to focus on the people using your language for cryptocurrency when it&amp;#x27;s also used heavily by traditional fintech companies, as well as defense contractors, and even for large retail chains (Target uses it for data analysis). Facebook also uses it for their spam detection system. Why are all of these uses fine and cryptocurrency is not? And if they also aren&amp;#x27;t fine, then how should we solve this problem? Start non-profits&amp;#x2F;charities that specifically use Haskell, and somehow make those the majority of the available jobs that use it? That seems pretty infeasible unless you want to solve the broader problem of these jobs existing in the first place.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;haskell&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6p2x0p&amp;#x2F;list_of_companies_that_use_haskell&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;haskell&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6p2x0p&amp;#x2F;list_of_com...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;ekmett&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;ekmett&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;users&amp;#x2F;83805&amp;#x2F;don-stewart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;users&amp;#x2F;83805&amp;#x2F;don-stewart&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moomin</author><text>I mean, you ask a lot of questions, but the first one is answered by the article and the others aren&amp;#x27;t really that important given the answer to the first.</text></comment>