My experience has been that roles in less popular languages are rare but they also substantially help match up candidates and interesting opportunities. I've be

My experience has been that roles in less popular languages are rare but they also substantially help match up candidates and interesting opportunities. I've been interested in functional programming and Haskell since college and it's specifically helped me get roles I would not have gotten otherwise: • I got an internship at Jane Street thanks to my Haskell and OCaml experience—I doubt I would have been considered at a similar company like Two Sigma • I got onto a cool operations research/AI team at Target thanks to my Haskell experience—I wouldn't have considered them and they wouldn't have considered me without it • at Target, I saw first-hand how using a non-standard language massively helped with recruiting highly skilled engineers