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> There is no big company behind Zig, and the non-profit foundation stands on its own legs thanks to a balanced mix of corporate and individual donations. We do
by skohan 5y ago
> There is no big company behind Zig, and the non-profit foundation stands on its own legs thanks to a balanced mix of corporate and individual donations. We don't have any big tech company on our board of directors, and frankly, we like it this way.
I hope it stays this way. And maybe it can given the way the foundation has been bootstrapped, and that the project is driven largely by a single creator. Having the funding be driven largely by small donations of actual developers is a healthy incentive structure.
Zig, next to Rust, is one of the more interesting language projects going on these days. Since Rust became orphaned from Mozilla, I am a bit ambivalent about the amount of investment in the project which is being driven by tech giants currently.
- oblio 5y agoIs there a popular language without investment from tech giants?
- stephc_int13 5y agoA some point, I think this is inevitable. And to be honest, I don't care that much about who is behind a tech, as long as they are making the right choices. (except if it is Apple)
- scrollaway 5y agoI mean at some point, if the tech is good, tech giants will use it. And then you'll have a flurry of people rambling in shock "Wow, Google depends so much on [tech] and they don't even give a single penny to the devs!". Programming languages getting a bunch of investment from its users is open source working possibly at its best.
- InitEnabler 5y agoNim, Pony, and maybe Dlang?
- dragonsh 5y agoPython developed despite tech giants. It's only recently after it became very popular all tech giants started investing in it. Similar are many other languages like Ruby, Haskell etc. Rust is developed within a corporate world of Mozilla, like Go language in google, so its natural it will embrace corporate world and companies like Microsoft, Amazon which will in time decide it's future directions.
- pjmlp 5y agoZope was the main reason to use Python in 2000, it slowly replaced Perl among UNIX admins, then there was Django among other Python based tooling. Guido also worked always for quite well known companies after he left academia.