I'm not really implying that. Somewhere or other it says Andreas is working for a top secret startup and is always trying to start his own. What I'm saying is

I'm not really implying that. Somewhere or other it says Andreas is working for a top secret startup and is always trying to start his own. What I'm saying is that it can be misleading how much academic institutions are "behind" academic projects. If you talk to most academics, you'll discover that they believe their academic institutions are doing everything they can to discourage their projects (academics can be somewhat sarcastic). Some of the Julia core devs are academics and write papers on Julia, yes. Their salaries are paid by those institutions. They may have students who can do some coding for them (so long as they write a thesis too). But being an academic is a very demanding lifestyle. With few exceptions, you are paid to write papers, teach, do administration and apply for grants, not to write code.