We hired a team of 10 Haskellers in 3 months with over 100 people doing our application task. It's really not hard to find developers, the market (at least for

We hired a team of 10 Haskellers in 3 months with over 100 people doing our application task. It's really not hard to find developers, the market (at least for Haskell work) has plenty of supply and little demand. So, "learning Erlang/Clojure/Haskell" is a bad strategy if you just want to be employed, unless you are good enough to pit yourself against people with decades of experience, who write large amounts of open source code, who have built several projects in a host of other tech stacks and who can afford and are willing to take a (so far, up to 3x) pay cut to work full time in the language they love and helped build. I suspect the problem is the two most popular ways of hiring developers in tech companies (tapping your network, and recruiters) fail hard at finding functional programmers, unless you yourself are a functional programmer.