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Here is the difference between what you want to do and what TypeSafe is doing: You want to create the language and then profit. TypeSafe takes an open source la
by jetti 15y ago
Here is the difference between what you want to do and what TypeSafe is doing: You want to create the language and then profit. TypeSafe takes an open source language and bundles it with other open source technology and then offers support.
I think it would be hard to keep working on your language while trying to make a profit. If you want to try to make money, write a book about your language. Put it on http://leanpub.com/ http://leanpub.com/ and go from there. Maybe a publisher will be willing to work with you. But it is a way to earn money in the short term while you wait for the language to grow in popularity.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoI guess you could say the issue is that TypeSafe's seed funding came from academia. It's the same people in TypeSafe who developed Scala, but they developed it as a research language before "exporting" back to the industrial world.