It takes a lot more than good code, talented engineers and passionate customers to scale food tech startups that deal with getting perishable food from local farms to people’s doorsteps.
It feels like some kind of tech-myopia that anyone should think code was the key to a successful food company. The old "when you're holding a hammer..."
Yeah, they could've hit Monad Transformer Hell, or they could've wasted all their time learning how to write practical applications in Haskell and end up bankrupt in a very lovely ivory tower.
I've heard this argument over and over again and it never is good advice. It ignores the context completely as well as whether the developers know Haskell or not.
You can screw things up in any language, especially if a large part of your business model involves stuff not related to code, like shipping perishable food.
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It takes a lot more than good code, talented engineers and passionate customers to scale food tech startups that deal with getting perishable food from local farms to people’s doorsteps.
It feels like some kind of tech-myopia that anyone should think code was the key to a successful food company. The old "when you're holding a hammer..."
If they had used Haskell I think things would have gone differently.
Yeah, they could've hit Monad Transformer Hell, or they could've wasted all their time learning how to write practical applications in Haskell and end up bankrupt in a very lovely ivory tower.
I've heard this argument over and over again and it never is good advice. It ignores the context completely as well as whether the developers know Haskell or not.
You can screw things up in any language, especially if a large part of your business model involves stuff not related to code, like shipping perishable food.
(I think your parent was being satirical)