It really shows what an investment they are willing to make in the language. They aren't just training up internal engineers, they're bringing in some of the best in the community.
I'm hugely excited that Facebook is making this investment and giving some of the developments back to the community. There are many smaller companies that would be interested in Haskell but don't have the resources or expertise to tackle some of these complicated problems.
Facebook is blazing the trail for production Haskell and the rest of us can follow.
That's a bit sad a great language like Haskell (I haven't personally used it but heard great things about it) is used for a hippie thing such as Facebook. Facebook doesn't even have much of a future, its a hippie fad just like Myspace was, eventually they'll get bored and find some new hippiespace social network: Snapchat, Whatsapp, whatever.
You know, you're not alone in thinking along these lines, but, if you would have just put a wee bit more effort into your wording, you could have made a good point out of it. Too bad you kept it even way below average Facebook post quality.
Oh and seeing how I'm actually responding now anyway, there's one more thing: use of the word "Hippie" does not actually qualify as name calling, you do know that, right? I do hope so; you see, it is mostly used in the cartoon Southpark, by a kid who is both the biggest bully of them all, and the most pathetic one as well. The ancipitality is really obvious, so I'm curious: was the satirical context so lost on you that you decided to copy this cartoon character's behaviour verbatim instead? Because in that case I think you could actually gain one or two social skills from Facebook! Chop chop, be a good lad now and give 'er a try, eh?
I'm hugely excited that Facebook is making this investment and giving some of the developments back to the community. There are many smaller companies that would be interested in Haskell but don't have the resources or expertise to tackle some of these complicated problems.
Facebook is blazing the trail for production Haskell and the rest of us can follow.