However, there are plenty of people who know how to write compilers. The questio...

rtpg · on March 2, 2015

Well when Django started out it was this small project for web developers, right?

Anecdotally, I've found the compiler people universe and the web developer universe to be pretty disjoint for a long time.

chii · on March 1, 2015

because it's a relatively boring and uninteresting problem?

The intersection of people who find a particular niche problem and also knows how to do parsing, compiling and optimizing well is pretty small.