[arohner]

It definitely did not make hiring harder. In fact, it was probably easier, because at the time, Clojure was more unique. The people interested in working in rare languages tend to be above average.

Also, I would avoid optimizing TTFBugFix the wrong way. You want the system to be easy to fix because it's well designed & documented, not because it's written in a language you already know.

[KurtMueller]

What characteristics about these people makes them above average? I need some goals to set my sights on :)

[arohner]

Intellectual curiosity, and a desire to experiment with new languages to be more productive/write cleaner code.