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I find it more shocking that everyone wants great developer tools, but nobody wants to pay for them.

Instead of writing compilers, I'll make people click ads then, I suppose.

You're missing the obvious business model: ad-supported compiler.

You're going to be staring at the compiler output anyway, potentially for minutes at a time waiting for the build/tests to fail. Throw some ads in the progress bar.

I remember that Caddy (web server) tried adding ads to their HTTP headers, and even that didn't go well with some non-paying users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741730

Some folks included ads in npm postinstall scripts, til they were outlawed.

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