I think there's room to innovate in licensing. I would err on the side of making it easy to install at the cost of some piracy. A great language could 100x its market share by losing 1/2 to piracy, so 50x overall.
They can't have much of a marketing spend or I would expect to have heard of them. Who is their audience? As an old Turbo Pascal programmer, I'm not asking that rhetorically, I'm genuinely curious.
Still the best IDE I've ever used, but that was because in 1990s Ukraine everything was pirated. Wouldn't be able to use it any other way.
As for the price, inflation adjusting $50 in 1983 to today is $160, so the personal use price isn't horrible.
They may know that the realistic target market is a few hundred licences, tops.
Its a reallyyyy hard sell to pay for a language just so that you can create software, especially something that sounds scary like Pascal. (idk anything about Pascal specifically but thats the vibe I get and I guess people will feel similarly) what happens if I build something with a proprietary language and the rug gets pulled out from underneath me? Thats the kind of concern people should have. Thats a LOT of trust before even starting programming. Especially when so many great languages with great ecosystems already exist for free and extensive examples and docs.
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