CreatorsOfProgrammingLanguages

Is it atypical for conceivers/drivers of innovative programming languages and libraries to end up with cush jobs looking for new conceptual advances?

Aug 5, 2015 https://www.quora.com//Is-it-atypical-for-conceivers-drivers-of-innovative-programming-languages-and-libraries-to-end-up-with-cush-jobs-looking-for-new-conceptual-advances/answer/Phil-Jones-He-Him

To an extent.

Alan Kay (Smalltalk) went from Xerox to Apple to Disney.

Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal) went to Microsoft and invented C#.

Simon Peyton Jones (big Haskell contributor) is also at Microsoft (I believe).

Guido van Rossum (Python) was a long time at Zope Corporation (commercializing the Zope framework for Python) and is now at Dropbox (a major Python user)

Linus Torvalds (Linux, Git) is now at GitHub

etc.

Other language designers have tended to stay in academia.