From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: cmhobbs@member.fsf.org
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you earn money with Guile?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:30:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twfu61ku.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160603125732.4f4f1d7d@dissentio>
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Christopher M. Hobbs writes:
> 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.
I agree that that is important. This thread is, however, to address a
specific aspect which I also think important and which I did not see
here at all till now: Before investing effort into anything, most people
first check whether others have successfully done so, especially when
they think about marketable skills. That’s a very useful strategy most
of the time (see xkcd bridge¹ ☺), and I did not see any answer for that
From Guile yet.
With this thread, we can now answer that question: Do people earn money
with Guile? Yes, they do. Here are some examples:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg00007.html
¹: https://xkcd.com/1170/
> And to contribute: I wrote a couple of bits of guile at work for
> monitoring some system processes, which I was paid for.
Nice!
Did you use a specific library or module for that?
(that could be useful for my current work, too — for keeping tabs on a
Solaris cluster)
> 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.
Good luck! I hope it works out.
Best wishes,
Arne
--
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 20:30 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
2016-06-03 19:24 ` Tristan Colgate
2016-07-12 20:05 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-07-12 20:30 ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
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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