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I've always done this as a side project, but I'm often wondering if it's possible to start doing it full time. That would be great.
(For context: I have studied Maths, and worked as a SW engineer for the past few years, especially ML and now Data engineering. But, I'd love to get back to a more theoretical project at this point..)
The problem is, as far as I understand, the only people who work on PL research are: - At universities. But, the universities in my city/country don't offer many opportunities in this area... - At the R&D section in some corporation (eg Microsoft)
My question is, what are my options? How are all the maintainers/developers of the many programming languages around getting paid? Do you really do all this work in your free time, after having another full time job?
It appears there are not many opportunities around to get paid to do PL research... Am I missing some of them?