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> The fewer users a language has the longer it'll take to hire someone In practice that only seems to be true for rapidly growing companies. I've got a list o
by sheepmullet 9y ago
> The fewer users a language has the longer it'll take to hire someone
In practice that only seems to be true for rapidly growing companies.
I've got a list of 30-40 F# devs I could hire in my city. On the other side of the equation my dev team only adds 1-2 new devs/year.
In practice we typically take less than a week to fill an opening.
- jcadam 9y agoIt actually seems like it ought to be easier to find a good programmer when you're hiring for one of the more obscure languages like F#, OCaml, Erlang, Clojure, etc. The total number of available programmers may be less, but most of them are probably going to at least be decent (they were self-motivated to learn a non-mainstream language, after all). If you're trying to find a great Java developer (in which case what you're really looking for a great developer who is willing to code in Java for money), you're going to waste a lot more time sifting through legions of incompetent code monkeys to find somebody good (one good screening filter: if Java is the only programming language they know -> reject).