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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:43PM (#31870438)
Not "a salary", but a Jane Street salary and resume cred. Otherwise you just won't find that many takers.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by yawaramin on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:11PM (#31870690)
I can assure you I will and in fact have found plenty of takers for my job postings with a niche language. You just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:09AM (#31874278)
You just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know.

OK, I'll grant that if you have that "magic skill" then you can in fact recruit developers for niche languages.

Most companies don't, as we know, and frankly it's amazing to me how incoherent their communications are throughout their so-called hiring process.

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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by yawaramin on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:23PM (#31879888)
If having sensible hiring practices is a 'magic skill', then I guess call me Harry Houdini!
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:15PM (#31903690)
Per this person's experience (which seems sadly far from atypical), you might as well be:

https://www.benjamistan.tech/2022/06/26/wasting-time-in-tech...

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