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> It's a business struggle. You're not going to hire Clojure devs. You're just not. How big of a problem this is depends on the team and the company. I've wor
by sheepmullet 9y ago
> It's a business struggle. You're not going to hire Clojure devs. You're just not.
How big of a problem this is depends on the team and the company.
I've worked on plenty of medium (30+ dev) projects with <10% yearly turnover and for these teams learning Clojure is practically no cost.
I've also worked on teams with 70%+ yearly turnover and teaching anyone anything was a waste of time.
Media companies tend to be on the higher turnover side and I wouldn't recommend Scala or Clojure.
- VLM 9y ago"70%+ yearly turnover" Much higher than the food store I worked at as a student, long ago. If success is impossible because of high turnover, surely the language will not matter. Ironically, it is possible if there are management problems causing extreme turnover, then Clojure would be a strong advantage for management as a scapegoat. I was on a major automation project where mgmt nailing down the specifications across four existing departments procedures took over a year... hard to imagine devs working less than a year making sense of it.