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> setting up the foundation first, so that the Rust developers could transition to it I don't think the Foundation ever plans to employ so many people to work
by nindalf 6y ago
> setting up the foundation first, so that the Rust developers could transition to it
I don't think the Foundation ever plans to employ so many people to work on the language. Most of the people who left Mozilla now continue to work on Rust at Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. By no means am I defending Mozilla here, just saying that the Foundation wasn't the solution to employ 10+ engineers working full time on the language.
- rob74 6y agoYeah, of course a Big Tech company would rather employ a developer and allow them to contribute to Rust (and influence its development in the direction of the company they work for) than donate money to the foundation so that it can pay developers. Silly me...
- nindalf 6y agoThose companies are also donating to the Foundation in cash and kind (AWS and Azure hosting). The developers who have newly joined these companies have years of contributing to the Rust project. I'm 1000% confident that they wouldn't land anything that wouldn't be welcome by all users. For example, one engineer at Amazon is working on making it easier for Amazon engineers to learn the language by improving the error messages. Those improved error messages benefit everyone.