> Okay, so this is admittedly snarky but we've seen this sort of blog post so much that it has practically become an Onion article: Why Haskell Is Our Secret Weapon, by Startup You've Never Heard Of.
But occasionally it pays off in a really big way.
Like WhatsApp cashing out for $19 billion, on a product they never could have scaled with so few engineers without Erlang.
Like Viaweb and Common Lisp, where Paul Graham says the language allowed them to move much faster than their competitors. One anecdote was about talking on the phone to a customer reporting a bug, and actually fixing it on the live system and asking the customer to try again, and the customer was shocked to find it now worked.
Like ITA, who created the best in class flight search system in Lisp and then sold to Google.
Every once in a while, an unpopular but powerful technology really is the secret sauce for a winning product.
But occasionally it pays off in a really big way.
Like WhatsApp cashing out for $19 billion, on a product they never could have scaled with so few engineers without Erlang.
Like Viaweb and Common Lisp, where Paul Graham says the language allowed them to move much faster than their competitors. One anecdote was about talking on the phone to a customer reporting a bug, and actually fixing it on the live system and asking the customer to try again, and the customer was shocked to find it now worked.
Like ITA, who created the best in class flight search system in Lisp and then sold to Google.
Every once in a while, an unpopular but powerful technology really is the secret sauce for a winning product.