[HN Gopher] Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)
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       Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)
        
       Author : droideqa
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-12-22 17:30 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote:
       | Wonder if Haskell is still around at Meta these days, does
       | anybody know?
        
         | wyager wrote:
         | Looks like the author is now working on Glean (the AI
         | docs/search tool) at Meta, which is also Haskell-based.
        
           | eddsolves wrote:
           | Simon Marlow is a famous Haskell developer, alongside the
           | likes of Simon Peyton-Jones or Philip Wadler
        
           | throwaway132417 wrote:
           | https://engineering.fb.com/2024/12/19/developer-
           | tools/glean-...
        
         | throwaway132417 wrote:
         | Yes, (and so is OCaml) but less than in the past, mostly for
         | specialized and older projets. Most engineers at Meta will not
         | encounter these languages. It's costly to integrate them with
         | the internal tools and arguably not worth the effort. On the
         | other hand, Rust is increasingly popular and well-supported and
         | approved by the company.
        
           | wyager wrote:
           | I think one of the most promising pitches for rust adoption
           | is that it borrowed as much as possible from Haskell/ML
           | without treading into the territory where it becomes "scary"
           | for broadly-C-family language monoglots. A C++ or even Java
           | programmer can look at Rust and think to themselves "this
           | text has a comfortably familiar shape".
        
             | kccqzy wrote:
             | You aren't hiring good programmers if they are intimidated
             | by syntax.
        
         | loeg wrote:
         | Mostly discouraged in new projects.
        
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