I've had experience on both sides, plus know some other people who have been recently hiring haskellers. I have a huge problem hiring haskell people because th

I've had experience on both sides, plus know some other people who have been recently hiring haskellers. I have a huge problem hiring haskell people because the company I work for kinda sucks. I don't want to work here, so I can't really be surprised that nobody else does either. Haskell users seem to be more picky about where they work and what they work on, so if you've got micromanagement and "do this wrong because I said so" going on, you'll have a hard time. Where as you can still easily get hordes of PHP programmers willing to tolerate anything. On the other hand, someone hiring remote haskell programmers for a company where the culture values quality had 100+ applications for half a dozen openings and really has their pick of a lot of top notch people. I think if you can offer a good job, finding haskell people isn't a problem. But if you can't, then I would stick to popular_language_x.