There is value in obscurity

If you're learning a coding language with a view to becoming employable in a technology role in financial services, should you choose something like Python , which is well-used across the industry, or should you go for something a little more obscure?

A Substack blog post  at the weekend argued for the obscurity route. We've already looked at the value of languages like K and Q for finance jobs, but there's also merit to learning functional programming languages like Clojure, F#, Scala, Elixir, and...OCaml.