Built a team from 2 people to 12 in 2014, starting 8 months before elixir hit 1.0 and didn't have trouble. We attracted a number of people simply because we we

Built a team from 2 people to 12 in 2014, starting 8 months before elixir hit 1.0 and didn't have trouble. We attracted a number of people simply because we were using elixir. We also got a number of people who were interested in functional programming. Really, language should never be a barrier to hiring... a good engineer will want to learn a new language, and in my opinion, the really good engineers are already erlang programmers. The biggest barrier to hiring, in my experience building a team for an elixir project, was medieval HR practices. ("oh you can't hire him, cause he wants a plane ticket reimbursed for relocating across the country. He's being greedy." Seriously.)