What about having a core of a few people, and leverage that Lisp productivity potential? If you need a lot more "bulk" work (say, for customer integrations/customizations), is it something that the core people can make easier? Such as with APIs or DSLs, and recipes, so that this other set of programmers doesn't have to all be CL experts?
You'll probably have to pay good money for that core of great CL hackers, though. Go programmers are more numerous, and maybe easier to find competent ones at commodity rates.
And is the number of CL hackers available on the job market decreasing? ITA found a lot of them, at one point. There are many Scheme/Racket programmers than there are jobs.
What about having a core of a few people, and leverage that Lisp productivity potential? If you need a lot more "bulk" work (say, for customer integrations/customizations), is it something that the core people can make easier? Such as with APIs or DSLs, and recipes, so that this other set of programmers doesn't have to all be CL experts?
You'll probably have to pay good money for that core of great CL hackers, though. Go programmers are more numerous, and maybe easier to find competent ones at commodity rates.
And is the number of CL hackers available on the job market decreasing? ITA found a lot of them, at one point. There are many Scheme/Racket programmers than there are jobs.