Zig is a really interesting case... it seems Andrew Kelly has been able to get from a small Patreon donation model to support his own modest salary, to a Founda

Zig is a really interesting case... it seems Andrew Kelly has been able to get from a small Patreon donation model to support his own modest salary, to a Foundation that is sponsored by several big names and has enough funds to pay several people to work on Zig full time. I've watched Elm for many years from a distance, and I think that with a little more "social skills", Evan could've probably done the same as Elm had quite a lot of hype a few years ago... notice that even though Andrew may be a bit more charismatic (though I find Evan really nice too) he also has a bit of a hardline regarding features, specially requests by sponsors are not treated specially in any way - there's a talk from an Uber employee where he mention that after getting Uber to sponsor Zig, they asked about some issues they'd created and were told very, very clearly that sponsorships don't come with "perks" like having your issues given priority!