<p><pre><code>    Maybe you can convince people on the fringe of functional programming to accept
    less pay for the lure of getting to learn a functional language? Maybe it&#x27;s worth it
    if you get on-average higher quality developers because of the affinity for vague
    association with functional programming?
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There&#x27;s a bunch of quality .NET developers that regularly come to the Sydney F# meetup which would imho defect in a heartbeat. Definate yes on the lure for on-average higher quality developers and potentially yes for less money. Hiring directly from Meetups is the exact strategy Walmart Labs did w&#x2F;nodejs to obtain quality talent that otherwise would not have considered them (Walmart [has|had] a image problem) - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;todogroup.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-we-run-an-open-source-program-walmart-labs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;todogroup.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-we-run-an-open-source-program-...</a>