This was hinted at Chicago's JuliaCon about some consulting work. Some of the JuliaCon participants brought up a question - "I love Julia, etc, but how can you

This was hinted at Chicago's JuliaCon about some consulting work. Some of the JuliaCon participants brought up a question - "I love Julia, etc, but how can you convince me that this isn't going to be dumped once you guys all get bored?" - IIRC, Jeff Bezanson replied something along the lines of "I love this project and I'm comfortable starving on ramen while I work on this". Which is a noble thing for Bezanson to say, but actually made me nervous about Julia's future. Considering it's obvious Bezanson and many of the core contributors works on Julia full-time * 2, I wasn't quite sure how he paid rent/food. And since everyone needs to pay food/rent ... this seems a very good thing for the contributors to continue working on Julia. If you told me that the core developers were planning to eat ramen for years on end, I'd be very worried for a new language. Instead, this strikes a great balance for Julia to advance and keep the lights on.