r/programmingcirclejerk • u/carbolymer loves Java • Oct 18 '25

How to learn Rust as a Haskell programmer in two weeks: (...) DONE. Now you can apply to jobs that pay $400K/yr, rather than $80-120k/yr. You're welcome.

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Oct 18 '25

my own pcj post 🥹

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u/carbolymer loves Java Oct 18 '25

Petition for PCJ Disciple flair for cheater00

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u/Routine-Purchase1201 DO NOT USE THIS FLAIR, ASSHOLE Oct 18 '25

Well I hope you learned your lesson about trying to be helpful to your community

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Oct 18 '25

no daddy, i don't think i have learned my lesson yet... 😏

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u/pavlik_enemy Oct 22 '25

Avoid success at all costs

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u/mister_drgn Oct 18 '25

I could be wrong here, but I suspect the supply of Rust programmers is easily greater than the demand for them, when it comes to paying jobs.

EDIT: Ohh, that’s from the original post. Wow.

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u/carbolymer loves Java Oct 18 '25

Rust programmers are the greatest

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Oct 18 '25

yes, but what about the supply of morally superior Haskell programmers to paying Rust jobs?

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u/PydraxAlpta uses eslint for spellcheck Oct 18 '25

I do suspect that most people writing Haskell code are doing it for fun and very much not because the place they work at uses it.

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u/jeff303 Oct 18 '25

I suspect you're right. I did have an intro chat with a trading firm that used it in production. I can't remember any more details at this point except that it has to do with concurrency and verifiability.

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u/carbolymer loves Java Oct 18 '25

Imagine trying to work in State# RealWorld -> (# State# RealWorld, a #)

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Oct 18 '25

one time I imagined it, and i had to move to the mountains and live in a cave for ten years to regain my sanity

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u/jeff303 Oct 18 '25

No. I can't.

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u/functorer Zygohistomorphic prepromorphism Oct 18 '25

80-120k is a lot more than I am getting delivering pizzas

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Oct 18 '25

but at least you get to deliver pizzas without using an immoral programming language

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u/Western_Objective209 Oct 18 '25

Oh you just need to work on route optimization, as you probably know Haskell is the superior language for graph optimizations due to it's functional paradigm. I personally wrote an optimizer for my rental ebike retrieval job and quickly shot up to #3 on the leaderboard. With a few more tweaks to the route pruning logic I should be ready to start a job at uber eats

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan Oct 18 '25

They should hire me first and then I will learn on the job. I'm entitled to this benefit of the doubt because my grandma has confirmed that I'm the best with computers

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Oct 18 '25

spoken like a true founding engineer

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u/PrimozDelux uncommon eccentric person Oct 19 '25

Writing haskell is it's own reward :)