HACKER Q&A
📣 xupybd

How to land a job in functional programing


I'm very keen to get some time under my belt as a professional programmer in a functional language. I've not seen a job advertised locally that uses a functional language. Any tips on how to find / land one?


  👤 ggm Accepted Answer ✓
Tempting to say "be lucky" but more kindly, be in a community. Be discussive, make contributions that get reference, add to the repositories, attend meetups.

I was a manager many years ago (not now) and a remarkably good candidate came up for a role who had worked in lisp on traffic control problems. I wish we'd appointed, her mindset and approach would have been beneficial. What I am trying to say here is that even a job NOT in Haskell may benefit from what FP had to give. Strong typing and lazy evaluation inform approaches to problem solving.

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👤 muzani
What about a popular language with functional support like JS, and Kotlin? You could start writing functional code and get some of the benefits.