Yaron Minsky of Jane Street said pretty much the same thing about OCaml in one of his talks. And it makes sense. Go and OCaml are not mainstream, so the peopl

Yaron Minsky of Jane Street said pretty much the same thing about OCaml in one of his talks. And it makes sense. Go and OCaml are not mainstream, so the people who know these languages are likely interested in improving their own skillset, and it makes sense that they would be above average programmers. If they like the language enough, they would of course want to work with it rather than other languages.