How is such an obscure language - with associated difficulty in finding talented engineers - ever going to be a better choice than a more mainstream language, which probably has many of the same features?
> with associated difficulty in finding talented engineers
This is a myth. There are now many experienced developers who currently can't use Haskell in their day job but would love to. If I decided to start another business, picking Haskell would give me access to a lot of top talent who would otherwise not be interested.
It's actually not that hard to find talented engineers, especially if you are a distributed/remote team. I've interviewed & given a thumbs up to a constant stream of Haskell candidates (either with Haskell experience or interest in learning).
That said, I've also seen a lot of Haskell engineers go through the interview pipeline & get thumbs up from all interviewers _except_ a single person in leadership who would later push to move away from Haskell for "hiring reasons" :eyeroll:
