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I suppose the same way other open source languages fund themselves.

For a language, I think opennness and standards are so important because the usage is broad. The licensing aspects are also important, but I’m even hesitant to use open source languages that are largely run by a single org (eg, Go).

I don’t know if this is a naive statement or you’re saying it with action because basically every open source project with huge adoption have a single org

I will predict they OSS this within 18 months. They will make money on the execution engine, which people are ignoring, but was a bigger announcement imo.

I generally have the same sentiment, but languages I believe are one place where you can actually make money on consultations and support unlike other types of opensource projects.