kmiroslav·vor 10 Jahren·discuss> Jane Street Capital's Yaron Minsky once said that contrary to popular belief hiring for OCaml developers was easierNo one will ever admit publicly they are having a hard time hiring because of poor technical choices, that would be suicide.
kmiroslav·vor 10 Jahren·discussThe JVM (well, Java really) has been supporting orders of magnitude of that for many years.
kmiroslav·vor 10 Jahren·discussThey're not, really.A couple of concepts have become trendy: composition and immutability.The former is certainly a staple of FP but the latter, not as much (a lot of languages considered functional support both mutability and immutability).
kmiroslav·vor 10 Jahren·discussThe size of the Javascript generated by Scala.js alone makes it a non starter for serious projects.
No one will ever admit publicly they are having a hard time hiring because of poor technical choices, that would be suicide.