I think people who are earnest about the sentiment aren't screening specific languages. They're trying to find people who think hard about business problems and

I think people who are earnest about the sentiment aren't screening specific languages. They're trying to find people who think hard about business problems and follow with implementation. We do this. Our hiring process is impossible to pass for people who fixate on implementation. We have people do a simulated building exercise, and the developers that do well let the user needs drive the implementation. We think we've noticed a correlation between some dev communities and people who lead with implementation. We've seen a little of this with Elixir, but I'm not really worried about it. We've found a number of people who really enjoy Elixir that are also user-first.