[yakshaving_jgt]

I don't see it that way.

I don't think relative obscurity makes the technology itself exciting. I certainly didn't choose these technologies to be different, or to be fashionable. If I wanted to play with shiny toys, there are so many others to choose from. The shiny toys don't really appeal to me. I have businesses to run, and the technologies I chose are from a position of total pragmatism.

I sincerely believe it's easier to use Haskell and NixOS for applications of beyond trivial scale than, say, Ruby and Ansible. And I say that from experience.