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What do you mean by "for-profit" in this context? Many were developed by individuals at work, and later became widely adopted. Presumably the inventor also got
by solardev 2y ago
What do you mean by "for-profit" in this context? Many were developed by individuals at work, and later became widely adopted. Presumably the inventor also got paid some, if not in outright cash, at least in reputation...?
Lua and Ruby come to mind. If you expand it a bit, Elixir, Java, Javascript, Python, Perl, and PHP all had mostly solo designers at first. (Of course eventually they'd become much bigger projects.)
- max_ 2y agoI mean language that you have to explicitly pay money to use. Like the ones I listed above. You actually have to pay to use them A lot made money by offering the language for free & setting up a consultancy firm. But that is not what I primarily mean.