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by exdsq 1600 days ago
On the other hand you attract a certain kind of developer with those roles than generic languages.
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If you're using your tech stack as a hiring filter, it doesn't count as "Boring Technology".
No I appreciate that - my point is you can get better engineers that you might deserve at your startup by using a language like Clojure to entice them. I know people who work for a good discount if it’s on a tech stack they enjoy and is fairly rare to find.