[slezakattack]

"It is said that Haskell programmers are a rare species, but actually the majority of developers at Channable had used Haskell before."

Could you imagine if this wasn't the case? The hurdle to actually get people excited about a language such as Haskell especially moving from something like Python would potentially be huge. Kudos for already having that problem solved.

[arianvanp]

We're based in Utrect, where Haskell is part of the mandatory curriculum at and the language of choice for many master courses. Because of this, almost all our developers are somewhat familiar with it, or have at least had one course in it in the past, which really helps a lot!

[nanxor]

In many European countries there are workplaces that only hire people with relevant academic degrees.

A course on functional+logic programming is often placed in the 2nd or 3rd year of a typical European 3-3½ year CS degree.