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That's a little mean. The author writes: > 100% of donations I receive go towards paying rent, buying food, and generally attempting to live a modest, but heal
by gizmo 8y ago
That's a little mean. The author writes:
> 100% of donations I receive go towards paying rent, buying food, and generally attempting to live a modest, but healthy life.
He doesn't expect to get rich from this.
- rhacker 8y agoEven so, at some point if the language "takes off", a company out there may want to become a full-time sponsor. It's no riskier than a startup - and nicely bootstrapped with very low cost of maintaining it. Kinda awesome actually he's doing what his passion is.
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- amelius 8y agoAlso, who was the last person getting rich from a programming language? Programming languages are more of an open-source thing. You can't make much money from them.
- Boulth 8y agoAnders Hejlsberg got $1M for joining Microsoft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
- shabda 8y agoWhich is hardly "getting rich" if you are as skilled as Anders Hejlsberg.
- klmr 8y agoI’m pretty sure Anders’ salary at Microsoft qualifies him being called rich.
- jaredsohn 8y agoI think the GP assumed that Anders was already rich before that so joining Microsoft didn't 'get him rich'. But if that was the case, based on his work history he may have still 'gotten rich' via programming languages, just from before Microsoft.
- gowld 8y agoI think GP is saying that $1M isn't enough money to "get rich", and furthermore isn't particularly "for creating a language", for someone who could easily make $200K-$1M working on whatever Microsoft wants. But GP forgot that the $1M was in 1997, before Google and Facebook and friends made non-founder engineers rich.
- emodendroket 8y agoNetscape?
- noir_lord 8y agoTo get the principal engineer behind the languages Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal (Delphi) and then C# and TypeScript that seems like the deal of the century if you factor the business value of all of the above.
- TimJYoung 8y agoIndeed, and at the time I was surprised that they got him for so little. There's so many design decisions in C# that resemble Object Pascal and Turbo Pascal, that it's pretty obvious that Anders=C# (not to take anything away from what are surely some of the best compiler engineers in the last few decades, I just don't know their names off-hand).
- noir_lord 8y agoAs someone who programmed heavily in Delphi back in the day their absolutely are and it's one of the reasons I like C# so much, it feels like home. So does TypeScript.
- Boulth 8y agoI also used all languages designed by Anders, his practical approach is clearly visible in all of them. Unfortunately there are just a few interviews with him but they are all high quality: https://www.artima.com/intv/anders.html https://www.artima.com/intv/anders.html
- microtherion 8y agoBy that standard, I would guess that Chris Lattner did OK when joining Tesla.
- gradschool 8y agoI have a feeling some of the people involved with kx systems probably did well out of it. https://kx.com/about-kx/ https://kx.com/about-kx/
- wolco 8y agoOpen source can open many avenues of profit. I wonder what the creator of laravel makes with conferences, forge and paid support.