[hellofunk]

The most common stance on hiring Elm developers is to not look for people with experience with Elm (because there are relatively few) but people who are smart and willing to learn it. It is a different way than for hiring in other languages.

For example:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elm-discuss/92dXqmB4nJ...

But this is common in niche languages. Most of my background is in Clojure, which has a vastly larger userbase than Elm, but it can still be very difficult to find good developers for it. Many of the professional Clojure developers I know learned the language on the job when they went to work for a company that used it. I wouldn't doubt it is similar with Elm. I saw a presentation once by a CTO of a company that started using Elm in production, and he mentioned that hiring is one of the larger risks to adopting it. But that shouldn't necessarily stop anyone, depends on a company's goals (and spirit).