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The language agnostic approach works unless you're hiring for languages with a steep learning curve. Eg: Ruby Engineers.

Hire a Ruby egnineer if you want an Ruby engineer.

I've found engineers being able to quickly pickup Python, Java and C.

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Is ruby considered hard? I think I picked it up in a couple weeks and was productive. C is harder to pick up and be productive just due to the existence of footguns. Scala I thought was harder as well.

It used to be considered hard. Happy to know that you think otherwise.

... ruby doesn't have a particularly steep learning curve.

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