“The Economics of Programming Languages” by Evan Czaplicki [video]

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Another very successful way to go about building a language is Imba.

Build a successful product with new lang https://scrimba.com, make sure the product's very hard to Jeff and take VC money.

Now you can work on the language as you please, and they can't Jeff you since nobody else can build something similar (not in a reasonable amount of time anyway)

P.S: taking VC money is optional. Scrimba is profitable so it wasn't necessary.

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I really loved this talk and feel for Evan. As someone who was a VC/Angel investor in the space (I was the initial angel investor for something called LightTable/Eve) back in the day, worked for a couple of years at Red Hat, and am working on my own Open Source Language here: https://github.com/yazz/yazz (so yes, you could say I am a VC trying to build a low code product with my own hands), so I feel I have a valid opinions on this. I think that it is possible to make money in opensource as a little guy, but you need to have a combination of consulting, hosting, and support services. If your product is not able to encapsulate being sold and packaged as something that is possible to demo and sell to customers then you will most likely struggle to make a living from it

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