Physicists work on interesting problems. Developers work on profitable problems, mostly manufactured, for huge piles of money, from home, and with yoga over lunch.
I didn’t say “interesting” problems. Just problems. Anyway, sometimes they are interesting. I think Rich Hickey worked on some interesting problems. Clojure and Datomic are pretty neat, and Electric looks like an interesting problem, too :)
Rich Hickey is a founder, not a developer and regardless he is motivated by pain-minimization in the context of money making: "I had had enough!" [of manufactured complexity in commercial development] — his paper
