Comment by kazinator

Here is the problem in the article: nearly every language is going to have the (3) people.

Hire people for embedded C and you will run into some some people to whom C programming and their side projects in it are more important than whatever you're trying to ship.

Substitute anything. Rust, C++, Ruby, Java, ...

And of course the resume stuffing (1) people are also a language-independent problem.

Certain languages probably won't have too many people in the (2) category (excited recent grads). But those are the good candidates in relation to (1) and (3), according to the Gooby analysis in the article.