Selling your services when you use uncommon technologies

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Published on 2012-09-04T15:12:11Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 15:52 UTC
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I took a look in Stackoverflow most popular profiles, and then I did the same in several other sites, and then I took a look in job postings in several boards, mostly out of curiosity, because I noticed this:

If you work with Java, .NET or other managed languages, or you work with stuff that is popular for web development (Ruby, JavaScript, etc...) you can get lots of points on Stackoverflow, find lots of jobs and clients, find forums, friends, colleagues, etc...

But how a programmer of uncommon languages (Lua, pure C, Lisp, D, ADA, Haskell, etc...) find information, sell his services, and so on?

EDIT: This also applies to fields:

You work with web, corporate software, database, etc... it is great...

You dislike those previous 3, noone ever will hire your services...

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