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If you have to pay the salaries of programmers for the next 3 years to develop some solution, and know that 10% of that time will be spent learning a new technology that will make them 20%-50% more effective for the remaining 90% of the time. Would you do it or avoid it, based on the large cost of 10% of these programmers' time?


When I have another solution that will make them 30% more effective with only a 1% learning cost, yes!


I am claiming Haskell will be 20-50% more effective than Go, not than what they're doing now :-)


Extraordinary claims require at least existant evidence.




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