> Now I want to write compilers and developer tools, but there's no money to be made. It's sad. One the one hand it's great that we have access to so many amaz

> Now I want to write compilers and developer tools, but there's no money to be made. It's sad. One the one hand it's great that we have access to so many amazing compilers for free. But now there's a monopoly of compilers - and by extension, programming languages - by large corporations. They're all kind of the same thing too - vaguely C-like statically typed ALGOL languages with OO and FP features bolted on top. Swift/Kotlin/C#/Java/Typescript/Go, it's all much the same. I don't think anything novel (a smalltalk, prolog, haskell or scheme) could get any mindshare today, unless a big company lost their mind and tried to push something weird.