Why Co–Star Uses Haskell

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IHP

Haskell is really an underrated super power for building backends and web apps. The ecosystem has improved quite a lot over the recent years. With the Haskell Language Server and the Haskell Plugin for VS Code there's now really nice editor support. The language itself is also improving at a good pace, e.g. The latest release of GHC (The haskell compiler) added support for dot-notation, so you can now write `someValue.someField` as you might know from other languages. If you're curious about giving it a try and are doing web dev, check out IHP, haskell's largest web framework: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ (Disclaimer: I'm founder of the company that makes IHP).

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Listed

I know one of the founders, and she has a deep background in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, as I do as well. Astrology as a contemplative and epistemological practice has deep roots; the idea that astrology is "real" in a physical causal sense goes back to Ptolemy and only persists because of the historical influence of the Christian church. I've written a bit on the topic here: https://listed.to/@simpolism/27322/what-is-astrology As an engineer who's also studied a bit of astrology and has played around with how one might produce a description language to support the astrological symbolic apparatus, I think a functional language is a great choice. The idea of strict types defined as a set of symbols makes perfect sense in astrological terms. Although I'm much more familiar with OCaml/SML than Haskell, a basic outline would be something like: type Planet = Sun | Moon | Mercury | ...

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