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Two Erlang shops I know of never had problems finding Erlang devs. Competent devs will pick it up if they are interested in it even if they haven't done it full time before.

I did that to some extent.

> i think this is what inhibits functional programming in general

Yes, functional aspect was the harder part to learn. It wasn't the syntax, which is what most people mention.

The other part that is hard is to learn to use concurrency construct -- actors. But Go has the same problem, solving problems with goroutines and channels is just as much of impedance mismatched as using actors.