Sign of the times?

~ Don Stewart

The Haskell and broader typed functional programming job market seems to be coming to life, at least if google ads are anything to go by:

Several FP jobsAnd these are not just the usual suspects (places like Galois, where I started working as a Haskell hacker just a few weeks ago). In the past months I’ve seen “help wanted” signs for Haskell programmers for a curious range of positions:

Does this mean the lambda has been “commoditised”?

VivaLong live the lambda revolution! ;)

Published by Don Stewart

Functional programmer, PhD in computer science, and ex-quantitative finance developer. I've built a lot of Haskell stuff, now trying out Rust. I'm currently working on code search for Facebook/Meta. In the past I've held engineering management and software dev roles in finance, tech and applied research. Views expressed are my own.

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