Since you have first hand knowledge of the problems outlined in the article, can you comment on how easy it is to hire non-senior Haskell engineers? And how quickly do they come up to speed in a senior devs codebase?
Sort of. So far most of our hires have Haskell experience. Haskell was the main reason programmers would want to join us, so they would be naturally experienced in Haskell.
I’ll have a better idea of how non-Haskellers, including very junior engineers, pick up Haskell later this year.
Based on our limited sample size so far, I think people become productive within 4–6 weeks or so.
