Comment by bruce511

The dev tool market has always been completely monopolised. My own career started with Borland, then Microsoft took over. On Apple it was always objective C, and now Swift. Linux will jump every few years, as long as it's free.

In truth developer tools are a tough sell because choices today matter 25 years from now. Plus you are selling to a market of people who mostly expect stuff for free, or write it themselves.

Yes, it's a LOT easier to sell software to pretty much anyone else, so we'll done for identifying that.

And yes, there are some still selling tools to developers, but its a tiny niche, and has been for 20 years.