you are not wrong. but like I said it is entirely his choice, which is also reasonable considering the budget Order of the Sinking Star already burned (I heard it was at AA level already)

it is not like he can get the funding via opensourcing the language to cover the development. what he and his company needs is the game to finish and release and get enough profit to cover all the expense. making a new engine is already risky enough.

you just can't ask a man to ruin his whole career/life because it benefits you.

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hobofan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not asking him to open source anything. I've given up any illusions that that would be happening ~10 years ago.

I'm just cautioning other people to put any stakes into a language that's from its organizational bones doomed to fail for any outside party.

	▲	npn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		While it is not open sourced yet (to be honest it is not as important as you think, many programming languages are mostly implemened by a dozen people, even a single creator is not rare) it is not like he forbids anyone to ask for being beta testers, just like the blog writer.

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tsimionescu 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mostly a note, but the game was released 2 weeks ago. We'll see how well it sells, but it seems to be getting good reviews on Steam so far.