Comment by spopejoy

That wouldn't apply here, since as the article says they hire "generalists, and most of them have never written a line of Haskell before joining."

In any case, I think the "Haskell tax" concept (where you can pay well-paid programmers less if you have a Haskell shop) is stale by now. Rust attracted away a lot of FP-ers, plus mainstream langs like C++, Java and even Typescript got smarter. Haskell's biggest problem by far is the tiny labor pool, which Mercury seems to wisely avoid.