What manafers tend to forget is the selwction bias. While it is definitely harder to find a Lisp/Haskell programmer than say, a Java programmer, the former has

What manafers tend to forget is the selwction bias. While it is definitely harder to find a Lisp/Haskell programmer than say, a Java programmer, the former has a much higher chance of being competent and quick-learner, because thats the kind of people that tend to learn non-mainstream languages. They will likely be onboarded faster, and likely to be far more productive than their peers. I'm forgettimg whose quote it was, but it goes (in 2000s) something along "I'd rather hire a Python programmer, even if the application is written in Java, because a Python prpgrammer has selected him/herself by putting in efforts to learn Python."