I thought you were on to something really nice last year, and left you a long list of feedback on Indiehackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/launched-landing-page-for-...

Nothing makes me happier than seeing you guys having come so far since then and having stayed so determined!

Hey, great to hear from you again :)!! Oh I remember that feedback very well, it was a big thing for us at the moment (and we left you even bigger response I believe ;)), really motivated us to see somebody is sharing so much of our vision!

We would love to keep in touch, you shared a lot of great ideas with us - if you would consider joining us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/rzdnErX) or shooting us an email at hi@wasp-lang.dev, it would be great :). Thanks again for the support!

You have to remember that we're talking about a country whose police considered Wikipedia to be fundraising money illegally with their global donations based system, due to Finnish laws: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-7144745

I don't think it's a worthwhile risk to take for Finnish open source developers to accept donations and think it won't be considered illegal by the authorities.

Unfortunately, this is the reality on the ground. Finland is the least densely populated country in Europe, and one of the most arctic countries in the world. A lot of the people simply need a car to commute to work.

Cars in Finland have not only a value-added tax (VAT) of 24% but also a separate car tax slapped on them. At the extreme cases this can result in over 100% additional tax to be paid on top of the retail price of a car.

Absolutely true for most of Finland. Not necessarily Helsinki. Espoo, Vantaa metro area is borderline.

One car household is still much more common than two cars per family.

This looks about right to me. To add for reference, something like 5200 € / month gross puts you to top 10% earners in Finland already. So it is an excellent salary to get locally.

I also know of a few developers making 10k€ / month but I have to say they're very rare to come across in this country.

This is a good exercise to make a rough comparison like ths.

However, actually a junior would make something like ~3k€ before taxes in Helsinki, not after taxes. The taxes are (very) progressive, at that income level it's something like 27% in Finland.

When I book a dentist or an oral hygienist, the first available times are usually at miminum 8 months ahead. The cost is 60 €. This is at the public healthcare.

Granted, this is another Finnish city, not Helsinki.

Nothing is better than seeing the broken pieces of the foundation fixed in Haskell.

Records were my number one gripe in the language that otherwise does so many advanced things so uniquely well.

I also liked that they managed to pull off https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldable_Traversable_In_Prelude

There's also Elchemy which is semantically and syntactically like Elm but compiles down to Elixir:

https://github.com/wende/elchemy

Do you have more info about this? It does sound promising.

Scala's type system is more expressive than Haskell's? I didn't know that. What makes it more expressive?

Subtyping, of course.