On: Why Co–Star Uses Haskell

[frozenport]

>> Co–Star is built by a small team of thirty.

LOL thats giant. How much does it cost to run the show? 30 x $100,000 for an astrology app?

[dang → frozenport]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[bojo → frozenport]

I have strong feelings against astrology myself, yet I find it frustrating that is the HN takeaway here, and not the fact that there's a successful company making enough money to fund 30 people's salaries and is written in what a lot of us consider an interesting functional programming language.

[dang → bojo]

That's doesn't seem to be an accurate description of this thread. Maybe look again?