June 9, 2024 | 20 min. read If you've ever seen a discussion of functional programming languages on the Internet, you'll have probably noticed one talking point in particular that comes up frequently. For the sake of generalization, let's make up a hypothetical functional programming language called Gooby. In these discussions, often someone will say something like "Oh man, I love writing Gooby. I wish I could use it at my company or on my team, but it's just so hard to hire Gooby engineers."Ine...