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by manishsharan 2491 days ago
The job market is a chicken and egg type problem. Management would not allow Elm based projects as there are no othe Em programmers on staff. We cant ask for Elm programmig experience in resumes as we dont have any Elm based projects.

I wonder how other languages,like Scala, managed to get traction in the enterprise whereas Elm has not even though it can solve real issues that we face with Javascript development.
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aphexairlines 2491 days ago
Scala got traction in places I've worked partly by making the pitch that the team hires people based on software engineering aptitude, not prior knowledge of specific technologies.

A new hire often has to learn a number of new/different technologies. The language is one of the easiest of those.

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iraldir 2491 days ago
I agree it is definitely a chicken and egg type problem (which doesn't negate the fact that it is a problem)

I don't know for Scala, but in general Marketing and money thrown at hackathon and meetups can get things moving in that regard. However I believe Elm doesn't do much of that.

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