From: "Christopher M. Hobbs" <cmhobbs@cryptolab.net>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you earn money with Guile?
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 12:57:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160603125732.4f4f1d7d@dissentio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9dali3f.fsf@web.de>
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 11:32:24 +0200
Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > “I would take Guile seriously when someone earned money with it.”
> > — someone from IRC
>
> When I saw this on IRC, I realized that the there’s something to it:
> When a professional sees something new and is unsure whether it can be
> useful to business, it’s sensible to first check whether someone else
> already earns money with it. That doesn’t work for the first person,
> but it works for all others.
>
>
> So I want to ask you: Do you earn part of your income by programming
> with Guile?
>
>
> I’ll go first: I used Guile for a few tasks for my PhD thesis (which I
> got paid for).
>
> The first main task was to assemble commandlines for my plotting tool
> where my previous shell scripts became a maintenance nightmare. All in
> all that’s about 300 lines of Guile Scheme. I’ll be using Guile for
> this again in the following months.
>
> The second main task was to build an Ensemble Kalman Filter to get a
> deeper understanding of the method. That’s about 266 lines of Guile
> wisp and available online:
> https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/wisp/src/v0.9.0/examples/ensemble-estimation.w
>
>
> I’d be glad to hear how you earn money with Guile!
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne Babenhauserheide
>
> PS: Earning money with Free Software is awesome!
>
In today's development ecosystem, I fear a language won't gain any
popular traction (and thereby cause profit to be gained) until you can
build a blog or some other inane web application in it... preferably in
under 5 minutes. It doesn't matter how well the language does anything
else.
At the risk of derailing the thread, I think a better approach would be
to show things that guile can do. This seems to help the popularity of
languages.
And to contribute: I wrote a couple of bits of guile at work for
monitoring some system processes, which I was paid for. I've also used
it in a side project related to mail processing that may someday
generate income but that's still a long way off.
cmh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-03 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-03 9:32 How do you earn money with Guile? Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-06-03 17:33 ` Nala Ginrut
2016-07-12 20:44 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-06-03 17:57 ` Christopher M. Hobbs [this message]
2016-06-03 19:24 ` Tristan Colgate
2016-07-12 20:05 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-07-12 20:30 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-07-12 21:11 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2016-06-07 8:05 ` Jean Crépeau
2016-06-26 21:31 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
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