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Accountant as a person? Nohow, I just hope that this is good for accountant and for entrepreneur simultaneously.

Any market is served somehow. I believe it is worth finding out if this offer is better than what is being served.

Thank you so much for CoffeeScript! I bet on CoffeeScript in 2016 and surely would bet again in 2020, it is still great for those who want to focus on compact and clear coding. Your creation helped unknown developers like myself to actually find frontend coding bearable.

After seeing video with you talking about CoffeeScript design aspects ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspYurD75Ns ), it was clear that CoffeeScript was created by genius. I think the explanation why big corps did not contribute to your work is simple: they just could not. CoffeeScript was perfect from the start. It was ahead of time when it appeared and now it is still ahead of time for features you mention. It is like SQL or functional programming or algebra. Often best tool to get things done, but not for everyone.

If you ever read this, may I please ask one question? Imagine universe where all software is commercial. How much would CoffeeScript cost to its users?

Capitalism is only bad for those who do not share profits coming from better productivity. Government regulation is needed to balance inequality created by capitalism: progressive tax, competition laws, professional unions etc. Workers are also responsible to bargain deals that make them share more benefits and raise their bar. This is everlasting struggle.

Bread and butter is also 'open source', but not 'free'. There is no problem with 'open source' that is free for non-commercial usage and paid for commercial usage. Is this what GPL is about?

Few would dispute, at least, that high level languages are more powerful than machine language.

I would! =) How is power of language defined?

Level of abstractions, high-level vs low-level? Attractive language syntax (DSL/macro/syntax sugar)? Tools, support and libraries? Community traction, popular, paid-more? Optimized and effective code? Low entry-barrier?

Depending on definition on what powerful language is, winners might become losers and vice versa.