There's no need to hire Clojure programmers, just hire good programmers, and get them to work on Clojure. Our experience is that new people can start producing

There's no need to hire Clojure programmers, just hire good programmers, and get them to work on Clojure. Our experience is that new people can start producing something useful in two weeks at most. There's not really a lot to learn to become useful. Most of beginner's hurdles are on environment setup, coding habits, etc, these are not problems at all if they join a team .