As much as I want to say yes (I would be horribly excited to work with Clojure) it seems to be something of questionable value to a non-engineer.<p>Depending on the application there is probably a productivity advantage and you&#x27;re certain to find a small number of very talented engineers. After that you may have to train engineers. If its a more interesting &#x2F; profitable project you can expand the hiring pool by looking globally. Famously, Jane Street uses OCaml and it works out well for them.<p>I&#x27;d say yes in two scenarios, if you want a smaller team (and dont need to scale up too much in number of engineers; although you can switch languages later if the company begins to succeed) or if you have a more specialized project that benefits from the language and probably needs more of an academic background.