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Just be aware that the animation makes it look like everyone is using Haskell in the evening. That's false and caused by normalization. Other languages are still more used.



That's right: Haskell is disproportionately used in the evenings, but it's not highly used at any time. You can see in the 4th graph that of the 250 languages considered, Haskell is one of the lowest traffic.


This is assuming that SO is a popular destination for Haskell questions.

Github would be the better indicator. Especially if Github could include anonymous stats for private repos too. That would give a good indication about the commercial viability of the various languages.

I'm one of those people who uses Haskell a lot at night time and I rarely use SO for it. I often find answers in documentation, blog posts, IRC, and books. Whereas during my day job I tend to run into a lot of obscure framework errors when I work with Ruby on Rails or the various weird quirks in Javascript where SO is indispensable. I have different kinds of queries with Haskell rather than copy/pasting error msgs, likewise when I use Erlang/Elixir.

Another example is Reddit:

    /r/python 122.1k users
    /r/javascript 82.4k users
    /r/java/ 51.4k users
    /r/php 40.8k users
    /r/cpp 35.7k users
    /r/ruby 31.1k users
    /r/csharp 28.2k users
    /r/haskell 22.8k users
    /r/golang 20.7k users
    /r/c_programming 19.6k users
    /r/swift 17.1k users
    /r/rust 16.1k users
    /r/sql 13.6k users
    /r/scala 10.4k users
    /r/lisp 10.3k users
    /r/clojure 10.0k users
Haskell is not far behind Ruby, C#, or CPP on Reddit. Yet the difference in the SO chart is dramatic.

But no doubt it's not as popular professionally as other languages, sadly, but it's not quite as fringe as this particular data source indicates.




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