[yutijke]

How are they supposed to fund the development then?

Open source would have been ideal, but when people ask for open source it's mostly them asking for free. We know that most developers don't truly care about open source beyond the surface level given how popular VSCode is.

If you want to make money and pay rent, Open Source has shown to be disastrous for almost all business models.

[prepend]

I suppose the same way other open source languages fund themselves.

For a language, I think opennness and standards are so important because the usage is broad. The licensing aspects are also important, but I’m even hesitant to use open source languages that are largely run by a single org (eg, Go).

[Patrickmi]

I don’t know if this is a naive statement or you’re saying it with action because basically every open source project with huge adoption have a single org

[TradingPlaces]

I will predict they OSS this within 18 months. They will make money on the execution engine, which people are ignoring, but was a bigger announcement imo.

[anaganisk]

I generally have the same sentiment, but languages I believe are one place where you can actually make money on consultations and support unlike other types of opensource projects.