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Another thing to keep in mind is the size of the candidate pool. There's a lot fewer F# devs than PHP. Can make hiring a bit trickier.
by joshuahutt 3y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is the size of the candidate pool. There's a lot fewer F# devs than PHP. Can make hiring a bit trickier.
- worthless-trash 3y agoAnd I was under the impression that coders were thought of as replaceable cogs in a machine, one just as good as the next.
- jpgvm 3y agoThis is almost never a bad thing. It means you have fewer people to compete with when advertising a position and the people that use a niche technology generally have more passion for their craft.
- dukeyukey 3y agoAlthough it also delays hiring - I work for a startup using Kotlin, and we've had maybe three candidates _ever_ who have used Kotlin beyond hobby projects. And I was one of them!
- photonbeam 3y agoYou might get less volume, but you can use this as an advantage
- pharmakom 3y agoAverage quality is so much higher for certain languages (Clojure and OCaml also come to mind). I don’t mind a 5% pool size when 95% of the alternative can’t build things.