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Tell Us! Why Did You Donate To The Haskell Foundation?...And If You're Holding Out, What Would Make You A Regular Donor?

Haskell Community [Unofficial] April 15, 2026
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I would add a metric: normalized number of Haskell job openings per year. Right now, the jobs thread on Discourse averages about one posting per quarter. A reasonable target might be one per week. DVORAK is more ergonomic and efficient than the QWERTY keyboard layout, yet it has struggled to gain widespread adoption for decades. Haskell is … I noticed partnership initiative thread. I think it is a step in the right direction, but HF should adopt a more missionary approach, because why would a company X with JS/Java/Go stack would introduce Haskell? HF should invest into Haskell startups and practice approach: * buy a small company * introduce Haskell (in micro-service architecture no need to rewrite everything plus AI could help with cutting corners) * sell the company after a few quarters of profit. * goto step 1

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