On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 09:03:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Where there is some giving back is organizations that work with
the financial institutions. Python has a number of
organizations contributing to Python and library development
who get their income by training or consulting to financial
institutions.
Btw, I just found this on pony-lang:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pony
I guess one model is for the language-creator to do
consulting/implementation for the industry and make the
improvements on the compiler/libraries available.
But Pony is a rather unique language regarding compile time
guarantees.