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Carl Baatz
Personal blog · baatz.io/postsstartupseconomicswriting
Carl Baatz's personal blog at baatz.io covers startups, economics and writing. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on 'Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming'. The one comment on it discusses Haskell for web backends (citing Yesod) and its use in finance for modelling currencies and derivatives with types.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Haskell is equally suited to backend web development as Python, Ruby, or JavaScript. Just look at Yesod. There's nothing about Haskell that makes it worse for web development, and a lot that makes it better. For what it's worth, Haskell has uses in finance for statistical modeling because you can model different currencies and equities/derivatives with ADTs and the type system will ensure you never confuse them in y…
Comment linking /posts/haskell-in-a-startup/
on “Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming”Submitted A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell as a story · 347 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not a Luddite fallacy (2011) as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How people pay: money, time, and discomfort as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A founder’s perspective on 4 years with Haskell (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 mistakes that spoil discussions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion