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A comment on Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, bu... by njharman on Sunday December 06, 2009 @06:20PM (#980331)
It costs $90 year to have the tool to get in iphone appstore.

The game console dev kits are very expensive (at least they have been when I looked)

Is MS Visual Dev thingy free?

There is free version of probably every language out there. But, that doesn't mean people aren't making money selling that language. Cobol compilers come to mind.

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Re:Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, bu... by ephermata on Sunday December 06, 2009 @06:39PM (#980362)
Visual Studio "Express" is free, but doesn't have many of the features of the for-pay versions. http://www.microsoft.com/exPress/download/ (Link also includes downloads for betas of Visual Studio 2010 & trial edition of for-pay versions.)
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