[smabie]

You really think so? Take for example, kdb+/q. Not exactly widely used, but engineers who specialize it are making top dollar, it's not unusual for total comp to be around a million dollars, or sometimes a lot more, if you're the principle architect of a new system.

[klipt]

You're just saying that kdb has the opposite imbalance as Haskell (relative to mainstream languages).

If supply and demand for kdb favours employees, then presumably it disfavors employers, who would rather have a bigger pool of kdb programmers so they could pay less.

That doesn't contradict what I said about Haskell vs mainstream languages. I didn't say all niche languages are like Haskell.