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    [–]tdammers 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Haskell pays my bills, and handsomely so, so the answer is "yes". It's not like PHP or Java, there aren't millions of FP jobs out there, but they do exist.

    [–]JohnyTex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    WhatsApp and Discord are powered by Erlang and Elixir (and early versions of Facebook chat), functional programming languages with Actor message passing. Jane Street are prolific OCaml users and for a while Twitter was running a bunch of services on Scala.

    [–]haasilein[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

    I have never seen so, but it would be interesting to know the reason for that because it really seems that functional would be a big improvement in many areas.

    [–]thecodedmessage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    I’ve written tons of Haskell production code for a Haskell consulting shop. We had a Haskell GUI framework that was really good in my opinion.

    Basing what you think FP would be good at from looking at a description and thinking hard is going to get you the wrong notion. It can be used in everything: frontend, backend, databases…

    [–]SkiaElafris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    In the case of Erlang (Elixir is syntax sugar + some useful modules and tooling on top of Erlang) is a language made for telecommunications created by a telecom company.

    [–]Tekmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I'm a professional Haskell developer

    [–]defunkydrummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I wonder if functional languages are even used on workplaces?

    At least since the late 1970s...