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Gabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

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Functional programmingSoftware practice, open source & careers

What it is

Gabriella Gonzalez argues that developers misunderstand marketing as deception or hype, and applies the technology-adoption ideas of Crossing the Chasm to Haskell. She looks at what keeps Haskell from reaching mainstream programmers and what a community can do about it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Commenters point to it as a clear take on why functional languages stall outside niches, and its lessons are seen as applying to any technology trying to go mainstream.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “The reason why FP still doesn't really break through in the corporate world is a marketing failure”

    Applies Crossing the Chasm to marketing Haskell to mainstream programmers.

    platz, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Motivation – Keli Language”

  2. “here is a talk that goes into this problem.”

    Accessible talk on why Haskell lacks a Rails-like killer framework.

    JoelMcCracken, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Why Rust is a great choice for startups”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: haskell, marketing, functional programming, crossing the chasm, developer community

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