> Or, you can get them to adopt, but then you hit hiring limitations.
Depends on how flexible your "hiring principles" are. You mention you did this at a Fortune 100 company, so obviously you didn't have any flexibility at all. But for the (good) places that allow people to learn on the job, you just need to find a sufficiently smart person who likes to learn, and they'll get up to speed with Clojure relatively quickly, as long as their first reaction when seeing parenthesis isn't "eww".
Depends on how flexible your "hiring principles" are. You mention you did this at a Fortune 100 company, so obviously you didn't have any flexibility at all. But for the (good) places that allow people to learn on the job, you just need to find a sufficiently smart person who likes to learn, and they'll get up to speed with Clojure relatively quickly, as long as their first reaction when seeing parenthesis isn't "eww".