If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker for that last one: [jns], and h…

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker for that last one: [jns], and he has an hour-long tutorial video showing you how he made it happen.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    2·
    4 days ago

    Well that wasn’t meant to be too serious. You are surely aware of the situation that Haskell is not often used language in production. And a huge project you are doing with lot of Haskell is definitely something special.

    • expr@programming.dev
      3·
      4 days ago

      Oh for sure, it’s definitely less common, though there are a number of other companies running it in production as well. This isn’t my first Haskell job, after all. My last job was also a similar size company and codebase. Facebook was even running it for a while for their sizeable abusive content detection system before that was shuttered due to company politics/policies (back when they were trying to do something about it at all).

      But yeah, it’s not the first pick for a lot of companies, though I tend to think of that as a simple mindshare/inertia explanation than anything inherent to the language/ecosystem.