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For most of its time it is simply a single person and part time project. Even to this day the team is nowhere near Rust or Go's resources.
by ksec 1y ago
For most of its time it is simply a single person and part time project. Even to this day the team is nowhere near Rust or Go's resources.
- LambdaComplex 1y agoHuh, I actually expected there to be a bigger team working on it. In that case: I'm really impressed.
- tialaramex 1y agoIn 2016, nine years ago, Andrew announced he'd been working on the new language "Zig" for a couple of months. In 2018, seven years ago, Andrew announced he'd go full-time on Zig and quit his paying job to live off donations instead. In 2020, so five years ago, Zig's 501(c)3 the ZSF was announced, to create a formal structure to hire more people in addition to the few already on Zig. So, "most of its time" is just not true. For "most of its time" Zig was a small, largely independently funded project for multiple people, for a tiny period it was a part-time project, and for a while after that it was solo, but those weren't the majority of its existence.
- throwawaymaths 1y agoyeah but i think you can count on one hand how many full time zig developers are paid by the foundation.