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Good point. Seems like a language either needs to be non profit and open sourced, or profitable and closed source. Non profit and closed source seems like a fo
by BatFastard 9y ago
Good point. Seems like a language either needs to be non profit and open sourced, or profitable and closed source.
Non profit and closed source seems like a formula for doom and destruction.
- hocuspocus 9y ago> Non profit and closed source seems like a formula for doom and destruction. Which is not the situation here.
- BatFastard 9y agoIt seems very hard to make money off of a language unless you can get support contracts from corporations. Which in the language rich world is very hard.
- hocuspocus 9y agoNo company is trying to sell Scala on its own. Several startups emerged around major open source Scala projects and are doing fine. Lightbend employs core contributors to the compiler and stdlib. There are also very successful consulting shops around Scala technologies that are contributing where they can. The language and its ecosystem haven't seen anything but growth, I'm not worried.