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Re:A Book about Qt5 by lispm on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:47AM (#19300532)
Probably they wouldn't get 'mass adoption' with lower prices either. Devtools is a niche market and for an independent company it is difficult.

See for example the price for VA Smalltalk...: $6995 for a new developer license.

https://www.instantiations.com/products/purchase.html

Or VisualWorks, which charges based on either end users, number of CPUs, or a royalty basis.

It's a special niche market and in the Lisp space there are unfortunately no companies left of those which once sold actively maintained mid-priced Lisp systems with actual GUI Libs/IDEs (Dead/sold/abandoned/unmaintained: Procyon CL, Expertelligence ExperLisp, Corman CL, Digitool's MCL, Golden Common Lisp from Gold Hill, ...).

The remaining ones are two of the higher-priced vendors: Allegro CL and LispWorks. There were attempts to offer commercial CL systems - but none with emphasis on GUI (example Scieneer CL).

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