From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amirouche Boubekki Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How do you earn money with Guile? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:11:54 +0200 Message-ID: <7dca59dcc81de565c5a9b08375614293@hypermove.net> References: <87h9dali3f.fsf@web.de> <20160603125732.4f4f1d7d@dissentio> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468357979 5915 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2016 21:12:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-user To: cmhobbs@member.fsf.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 12 23:12:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bN4yp-0003Gu-L7 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:12:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN4yl-00053M-H5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN4yM-00052s-Dk for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN4yL-0004B9-4f for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::197]:50354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bN4yF-00047o-Du; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mfilter40-d.gandi.net (mfilter40-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.171]) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D440441C07F; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:11:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter40-d.gandi.net Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.70.183.197]) by mfilter40-d.gandi.net (mfilter40-d.gandi.net [::ffff:10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QItNO1QpgdiJ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:11:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 10.58.1.148 Original-Received: from webmail.gandi.net (webmail8-d.mgt.gandi.net [10.58.1.148]) (Authenticated sender: amirouche@hypermove.net) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4C93541C08A; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:11:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20160603125732.4f4f1d7d@dissentio> X-Sender: amirouche@hypermove.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4b98:c:538::197 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:12740 Archived-At: On 2016-06-03 19:57, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 11:32:24 +0200 > Arne Babenhauserheide 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. This doesn't work for a few persons ;) > > 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. > A blog in 5 minutes, the Internet in 30! -- Amirouche ~ amz3 ~ http://www.hyperdev.fr