New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD
Isn't the best course of action to rewrite popular components in Haskell, and show that its better? I'm thinking httpd/nginx/jetty, redis/memcached, postgres, and so on. You could even make a text editor. Or a kernel. Or anything, really.<p>I really like functional programming, but Haskell turns me off and without at least one major example of a beautiful, popular solution written in Haskell (and I don't think pandoc counts), I'm not going to make the effort to push through that barrier.<p>Other languages that occupy a similar space ("superior but tragically underused") have these examples. Erlang has...well a lot but Matrix and RabbitMQ come to mind. Clojure has...well it has datomic, but also Jepsen uses it, and heck I've used it and its fine.<p>The real question is, who's fingers <i>itch</i> to write haskell, and can you please pay them $400k to rewrite nginx in it?