[juskrey]

In short, Clojure is far the best professionalism filter I have stumbled upon, in all of my 20 years of coding for money.

It takes around 5 minutes to figure out whom you are talking to, when you are talking about Clojure.

This worked perfectly for me on both sides: as a contractor on hire and as an employer for some project.

[Kalium]

I worked in a partially Clojure shop for a while. I found the Ruby on Rails developers to be more professional, overall. The Rails devs certainly did not have the habit of trying to compose together 75% of a framework anew for each project.

[juskrey]

I was talking about Clojure as a filter, not about unconditional superiority of Clojure devs. Indeed, any particular company usually attracts either all very good or all mediocre Clojure coders. My point it is easy to establish who is who.

[Kalium]

I follow. My experience was that Clojure was a strong filter, but not for professionalism. It served mostly as a filter for interest in functional programming and Lisp-informed ideology.