Some say it was written exclusively for Unix-bearded wizards with PhDs. Some say only 10x programmers and unicorns can decipher its many operators. Some say any coding problem it touches will be saved from callback hell and find everlasting peace. The Haskell programming language has long been the subject of myths and misconceptions. Nonetheless it has been adopted by a slew of companies big and small, including Facebook, which has a large Haskell deployment and dozens of engineers using the language.
In this keynote, Katie will explore some of the pervasive stereotypes about the poster child of statically typed functional programming and compare and contrast them with her experiences working as a Haskell developer on the open-source Haxl project, which is used to fight spam at Facebook. As the former journalist investigates which stories stack up, she’ll share insights on what functional programming and Haskell have to offer, the challenges that come with their use, and where the ecosystem could be improved.
98. Haxl team
past and present
Katie Miller
Bartosz Nitka
Jon Purdy
Aaron Roth
Zejun Wu
Noam Zilberstein
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Louis Brandy
Jonathan Coens
Andrew Farmer
Kubo Kovác
Jake Lengyel
Simon Marlow
100. References
Ben Ford, Haskell at Fynder
David Crystal, The Story of 100 English Words
From Zero to HIPster (Haskell in Production)
Haskell in Industry
Hudak et al, A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class
Paul Graham, Beating the Averages
Philip Wadler, Propositions as Types
Sarah Sharp, What Makes a Good Community?
Simon Yang, My Journey into Haskell
101. More about Haxl
Haxl on GitHub
'Fighting spam with Haskell' blog post
'There is no Fork' ICFP paper and presentation
'The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale'
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Wired article