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Always great to hear there are companies out there thriving with these more powerful languages. The tired example I always turn to is Ocaml being the language for all the code at janestreet (~900 employees).

I've always been annoyed by the "there are no X coders" argument. Coding skills are broadly transferrable. My team's code base is all python, and we've had successful team members who'd previously worked only in javascript, Java, C#, etc. When we tell recruiters that any of these languages will do, they hate that. Oof.



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