> Unfortunately, Stevens requirement of familiarity still speaks > > against functional programming languages, even for something as > > popular (and watered-down) as Scala. It's very hard to find code > > contributors who know the language or are willing to learn it. >
This used to be true, but is no longer the case. Haskell, Scala, and OCaml are all sufficiently popular now that it's not a problem to find developers. Facebook uses Haskell. Twitter uses Scala. Functional programming has mainstreamed. As an open source developer that uses Haskell for my projects, I have found no problems with getting contributions from the community. Particularly in the anonymity and censorship circumvention space a lot of contributors are CS students and so have had some exposure to functional programming. Python programmers in particular will have an easy time as several key language features such as meaningful indentation, list comprehensions, and generators were taken from functional languages. What's harder to find is people that understand the core concepts of building anonymous and censorship-resistant systems. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
