> Can you see though how this model can cause a lack of trust in external observers? Your development model is reliant on attracting attention to drive funding. There are some major incentive problems here... You just need to make something appealing enough that people start using it and then, once they are invested in the language, some of them may be willing to pay you to fix the issues they find or build new features that would be useful to them.
As also a 3rd party observer, there is an obvious partial counter to the argument that you made. In the case of free and open-source, people are investing money or time because they believe in the product and its potential usefulness. That the product will deliver, for all people invested and for all users, is clearly unrealistic. There is no such thing as a "sure thing". It's more a matter of if the product delivers for enough people. And if anything, if unsatisfied, people are free to jump to the next candidate or savior that floats by.
I think the more valid aspect of the point presented, is the lack of trust or suspicions coming from when the hype is paid for and doesn't come from the grassroots and actual users. To include, negative propaganda campaigns targeting competing languages.
> If the language didn't have issues, there would be no reason to pay you to fix them.
All languages will have issues. I've always found this curious about people having such expectations. Maybe the argument is more valid in terms of the total amount of issues and bugs, but then that would need to be a fair and relative comparison to other languages. There is no such thing as a bug-free perfect language. While other parts of your post were "more valid" or at least points worth considering, I think on this point, it kind of fell off the mark.
> I know I will likely get downvoted for this but I believe in what I say.
Odd, that's exactly what happened. The tribalism is arguably too severe, which may relate to the money involved, that the downvoting is so predictable.
As also a 3rd party observer, there is an obvious partial counter to the argument that you made. In the case of free and open-source, people are investing money or time because they believe in the product and its potential usefulness. That the product will deliver, for all people invested and for all users, is clearly unrealistic. There is no such thing as a "sure thing". It's more a matter of if the product delivers for enough people. And if anything, if unsatisfied, people are free to jump to the next candidate or savior that floats by.
I think the more valid aspect of the point presented, is the lack of trust or suspicions coming from when the hype is paid for and doesn't come from the grassroots and actual users. To include, negative propaganda campaigns targeting competing languages.
> If the language didn't have issues, there would be no reason to pay you to fix them.
All languages will have issues. I've always found this curious about people having such expectations. Maybe the argument is more valid in terms of the total amount of issues and bugs, but then that would need to be a fair and relative comparison to other languages. There is no such thing as a bug-free perfect language. While other parts of your post were "more valid" or at least points worth considering, I think on this point, it kind of fell off the mark.
> I know I will likely get downvoted for this but I believe in what I say.
Odd, that's exactly what happened. The tribalism is arguably too severe, which may relate to the money involved, that the downvoting is so predictable.