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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by CydeWeys on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:06PM (#16417778)
Good developers should be able to pick up new technologies on the job though. And you are conducting interviews in such a way as to select for good developers, right? To the extent that that's possible anyway?

I'd rather just hire for good developers in general who are interested in working in Elm than to hire only for Elm experience. As you've pointed out, there are problems in doing the latter.

Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by not_kurt_godel on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @11:53PM (#16426948)
Yep, I'd rather take the person who says "I've never worked with Elm but I've heard it does X, Y, and Z well because those are things I've always found lacking in [insert JS framework here]" or even "I've never heard of Elm, but based on your description it sounds like it might mitigate X, Y, and Z problems because of [reasons], cool!"; over the person who says they've used Elm before but gives vague answers to follow-up questions (even if they aren't lying and have actually used it).