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Do you think it's reached the point where Crystal should consider some way to get funding outside of just Manas to allow for some full-time development on the p
by kyledrake 9y ago
Do you think it's reached the point where Crystal should consider some way to get funding outside of just Manas to allow for some full-time development on the project? I think it deserves full time developers, and there may be sources of untapped funding for potentially doing this if there is interest.
It may also make sense (at some point) to consider putting together a nonprofit that could make it easier to get access to this sort of funding in the future.
- RX14 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean of "outside of manas" but we have a bountysource [1] which contributes to the hours of the Manas developers to work on Crystal. [1] https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/crystal-lang https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/crystal-lang
- kyledrake 9y agoWell if the sponsor company is having a "tough year" as you said, and that means they can no longer support full-time development of Crystal anymore, it makes sense to put together a structure so that your core team can work on it full time. In the future you're going to need more than an internet tip jar to get access to the better sources of funding you'll need, which are largely institutional. It's going to be the most depressing news ever if we're doomed to a hundred years of toilet dumpster programming languages because Crystal loses steam due to one company's tough year. Let's make sure that dark future never happens.