Luca (Jul 13 2025 at 20:21): Luca (Jul 13 2025 at 20:21):Reflecting on Evan Czaplicki's great talk about how you fund a programming language — there are a number of successful language-specific consultancies. I've worked with some folks from DockYard (one of the biggest Elixir consultancies) and they seem to be doing well. And in the Rust world there's corrode.dev and some others.
It's probably not a great strategy in the short term, but if we use GitHub stars as a back-of-the-napkin metric, Roc is at ~5k and Elixir's at ~25k. It wouldn't surprise me to see 5x growth in Roc's popularity in the next few years.
I've been a consultant for the past ~14 years and have been running my own small consultancy since 2020, so I'd be happy to talk more about it if this is a direction folks find interesting.
Richard Feldman (Jul 13 2025 at 20:53):that's cool! Definitely something worth thinking about someday, but not soon I think. We have to earn businesses wanting to use Roc that much first! :smile:
Luca (Jul 14 2025 at 03:10):Agreed! Feeling optimistic :)
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