-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 11:32:24 +0200 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@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 - -- Happy Hacking! http://libernil.net/~cmhobbs GPG: 1200 0808 F968 47AB F489 91A3 FE26 6FFB 1A77 0868 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXUcUPAAoJEP4mb/sadwhosXQQAMpVQNDi1VA3gdc10vldWOdr IjErmy3DRnOx8sfpBtnDpL48+KnQppTGBZOldIlf0Mb9mLkWl054JMzxVIJ0r+bU GU8xK7vpk6wBuYnYD9s8653Nd1QuBaL4RO1RsqpZ5TAAvr31NqmOIt8LPDJ/ILlH /azHaZx/zaLICNKGlyuNalXhZITb7vlILfttOAMR4WGB1eHyT8OjlK4U4PZtPO67 FbwKYq0HWmCoXS9e5477kjKmbuI2gu3+OlDZhNP8rRxfch11iaXe09ORe8LDTVRw Azf1YP3KxzlDLFLx57V15AdYhzVR6Ea3PojfPJPlRz0MJOkh8EMg4tQEHCwxPdau 7n6Q9U2n96yAhO4GPsiNJiN1/BxXZt6Sp3MpQbMG86MIOmv/oo/VgjtE+dXz69aM 6a/swSE/FuAOTpEEh2uKC8pQj8iJa0YnXNE2L4EOFS10QVmf4kiuaPNjkVHiNsV9 NMdryFpDafWt+0MFEJSamaIML6UFF3KTr/ySi/XzMY1ljk/fTeKy/evSkoSTmcif x0ujcnNu7U87ws+tEs7o1W5vTTtCJuA12gxe1ItQSDvLv9coOVXtVNOnBqMkQvR3 0Aj5Ir2Q7Gv49WqfJsU6O1vHUJwQdpJkHbhqWWp/TX/dTo9t0c2DA6gu80RoZwwH rif3i7FtsZ/SBbITmM51 =jDI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
