Well, yeah, I wrote the article nearly 20 years ago. I still think the fundamental forces at work are pretty similar though. The economics of creating a progra

Well, yeah, I wrote the article nearly 20 years ago. I still think the fundamental forces at work are pretty similar though. The economics of creating a programming language are similar to most other open source software economics, although even proprietary languages need a way to get an initial user base. In some cases that's easier, as a large company can force a language for some important environment like writing iOS apps.