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Rich Hickey is probably getting more consulting and training gigs as Clojure gains traction. Martin Odersky is still a professor at EPFL but has founded Scala

Rich Hickey is probably getting more consulting and training gigs as Clojure gains traction. Martin Odersky is still a professor at EPFL but has founded Scala Solutions which does training, consulting, and will eventually provide Scala development tools besides the existing Eclipse support. The potential use value of Go as a replacement for Java and/or C++ for in-house production systems is more than sufficient to justify Google's investment in the related R&D. Walter Bright already had a pretty formidable track record before developing D so it might have kicked up his consulting practice a notch. The more significant financial impact for him from developing D seems to be more demand for seminars on compiler construction which he is unquestionably a master of.

nddrylliog 16y ago
Yes, a thousand yeses. For having tried that (and relatively succeeded), I know the benefits of having personally developed a language and made it (relatively) popular. It's an amazing thing to have on your CV, a great experience if you've got lots of free time and/or are very productive, but I really wouldn't base a business on it. It might be affordable as an investment if it's a very small part of an existing company based on another business, but that's about it.