[unshavedyak]

> For example, one thing we were told when choosing to write in a lisp was that we’d have problems finding developers. It turned out to be true in that we received fewer applications, but compared to the same process with a more mainstream language, I’d say the applicants were on average of higher quality. So by the final step, we were approximately considering the same number of résumés in both cases.

I can echo this statement with Rust. Same story. Our comparison was Python to Rust. Same app. Big leap, i know.