Haskell is growing

I love it how Haskell is becoming more and more widespread and widely known. More and more people use Haskell at universities and in the industry, enrich the ecosystem and work on GHC. It is really gaining a foothold in the programming world. If there's any language that deserves to displace some of the ancient crap that's plaguing the mainstream, it is Haskell. It really shows that academic soundness means real practical productiveness.

As a gay man, I take positive representations where I can get them. Any time a same-gender relationship is portrayed in a positive but very real light benefits us all. The same can be said of Haskell, which, much like being gay, will likely remain a minority programming language in a world that seems married to object oriented paradigm, and never really "come out of the closet" and be truly ready for acceptance in the industry. But anytime we can get some good press, it helps us all. I'm a big fan of Haskell (even over Ruby!) and I'm proud that Facebook has taken a stand and acknowledged that some of us are different, and thats ok.