A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

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I also don't see any haskell or erlang job postings, most is the usual Java / C# and JS.....

I've noticed a rise in Haskell openings but maybe I am just becoming more familiar with the FP community to notice them.

Well, Braga is a small city, while there are more companies moving there, it's all with standards from outside, I feel bad that they are not leveraging this opportunity.

I started working remotely for the same reason. It was not the only reason, not having to commute is also nice :D

i find it interested that a project like DataFixerUpper ( of minecraft that implments profunctor optics in plain old Java (!!!!) (<https://github.com/Mojang/DataFixerUpper>), cites 6 works done in this university ( and more if you count ex-researchers).
And recently scala has started to become widely used in data engineering, and in some conferences you see people talking about lens, optics and stuff and all this work goes unnoticed at the University.