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We have a team of Clojure devs and I think all but one of us has learned Clojure "on the job". Clojure is not hard to learn, imho.

But what's the number of good developers? I think the point is that good developers can learn whatever language they need. You don't need to hire Clojure developers.

Yes, thats something that some people don't seen to get. Good developers not only can learn new languages as needed, but they will learn new languages and idioms with time, else they will quickly become obsolete.

I'm also a pretty big proponent of distributed teams :)

That said, as others have noted, if you're hiring quality people, there's no reason they can't learn Clojure on the job. Plus if you make an investment in your people they're more likely to be invested in you ;)