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haskell-effort-graph

  • Red area is a result of the upfront, fixed cost of learning Haskell vs Java.
    • The company pays this for each new hire.
  • Yellow area is the developer's productivity gain once they're "over the hump."
    • The company can benefit from this, but it must first reach a break-even point vs the cost of learning.
    • If average employee tenure is less than this break-even point, the company is taking an absolute loss on each employee.
    • For Haskell to truly be worth it from a business perspective, the average tenure must not just eclipse the break-even point, but it must go further to account for the opportunity cost of better productivity during that learning period.
    • However, employees always benefit from this regardless of turnover - they get to take the productivity gain with them. This - in my opinion - naturally results in some tension.
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