One issue that's been on my mind is how to actually fund a new programming paradigm. As far as I can tell there are the following options: 1. Start a business

One issue that's been on my mind is how to actually fund a new programming paradigm. As far as I can tell there are the following options: 1. Start a business and seek investment (examples: Unison, Dark). This is tricky since programming environments are hard to monetise (all the competition is free), and the investment is quite large (you need a great team working for many years to maybe make something good enough you can actually attempt to charge for it). 2. Do it as a hobby project (examples: many of the small PLs nobody uses in production). This is hard because it takes a LOT of work to just get a good programming language, and then you need to also produce great tooling, a decent number of good libraries, amazing learning materials, etc. 3. Academia (examples: Haskell, Idris, Elm, ...). This can work, but generally the focus will need to be on some academically interesting problem. But a lot of what it takes for a language to succeed is a lot of down to earth engineering, which academic positions aren't generally great at (i.e. it took Haskell about 20 years to start being somewhat successful outside academia). 4. Corporate sponsorship (examples: Elm, C#, Swift, ...). This generally needs alignment between the language and the corporation's goals. This typically limits the amount of radical inventions you can make, as well as how freely you can pivot to new ideas. Fundamentally none of the above are readily useable for radical reinventions, but more for incremental improvements.