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Kotlin is great, but we are having a hard time finding solid devs due to the smaller ecosystem for it.

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You could try extending your candidate pool if you haven’t yet. Java devs are the fastest to onboard for Kotlin, also Scala, and vice versa. The stdlib APIs and the third-party libraries are the same, plus you get the Kotlin libraries. Lots of modern Java projects transition piecewise to Kotlin, so often hiring for Java turns out to be for Kotlin, in part or in whole.

That is a good call. Having platform knowledge is definitely a plus, but core language skills are probably more important considering the minimal complexity of our system.

> Kotlin is great, but we are having a hard time finding solid devs due to the smaller ecosystem for it.

Well, maybe you need to train them?

I would advocate for this. If your codebase is low in complexity then I think it would be wise to invest engineering time towards kotlin training. I've taken several courses on pluralsight and they get you up to speed quickly but informatively.

Also if you place kotlin in high regards or believe it saves you time/money as opposed to java (as i do too) then why not train java devs on kotlin and introduce them to a low complexity app before high complexity sets in (potentially)

Perhaps its due to limiting the candidates to the US, you'd have a very large pool if you opened to worldwide.

Are you saying you don’t give equity, or are you saying that you don’t expect the equity you give to be valuable?

We don't give equity. The company is bootstrapped and the founders ran it completely until cash flow positive. It is now a fantastic mission driven small business, not a startup, focused on post graduate certification exam prep.

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