So you're using a weird language

Re:So you're using a weird language by macintux on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:42PM (#33103713)

Some smaller companies have found that choosing “weird” languages gives them a much more focused pool of candidates from which to choose. Advertise for a Java position and you’re going to be overwhelmed with résumés.

And you’re doing a grave disservice to Elixir at the least. I prefer Erlang myself, but Elixir has established itself as a robust choice.

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Re:So you're using a weird language by smt88 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:47PM (#33103754)

I stupidly built a product with Svelte and I certainly had a "focused pool of candidates" -- no one at all with experience using Svelte.

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Re:So you're using a weird language by macintux on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:55PM (#33103808)

At Basho, we were happy to hire people without Erlang experience as long as they had FP skills.

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Re:So you're using a weird language by smt88 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:20AM (#33104337)

Yeah, I definitely don't care what backend language experience someone has before hiring them.

I haven't had the same luck with frontend. There's so much magic, config file hell, and other rough edges that you need someone who knows the framework. In the JS world, actually writing code is maybe 50% of the work, and managing the ecosystem (config, build, packages, etc.) is the rest.

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