At some point I hope to do a talk or blog post about “the economics of programming languages” to talk more about all this in depth, but here’s an overview of some of the things I’ve learned since “Let’s be Mainstream” when I knew a lot less about how organizational structure influences who ends up using a language. Developer Relations Here’s a job listing for a community engineer for Rust. That’s probably a $100k+ role. A full-time job that requires both technical expertise and great communicat...