Using Mitchell's donation we'll be able to to offer Jacob Young a full time schedule. As a reminder, he's the primary author of the C backend, x86 backend, LLDB fork that adds Zig support, and maintains the eZ80 toolchain on the side, all without even having the ability to bill full time yet!
I really believe the future is going to be Zig + Rust. They both have very promising futures. Production and safety critical software will benefit from Rusts increased memory safety and Zig will be great for bleeding edge performance and drop-in C replacement.
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ericjmorey@programming.dev · 25 pts · 1y
FYI the person with enough money to donate $300,000 to a programming language foundation is the founder of HashiCorp.
Kissaki@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y
modev@snac.bsd.cafe · 3 pts · 1y
Not so bad in foss...
This is great example.
wargreymon@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 1y
Good decision, zig is the next big boi of low level language. 💪🏻
Rust too complicated implies too much tech debt.
ericjmorey@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y
It seems there's room for both
spacecadet@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
I really believe the future is going to be Zig + Rust. They both have very promising futures. Production and safety critical software will benefit from Rusts increased memory safety and Zig will be great for bleeding edge performance and drop-in C replacement.
PushButton@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
hector@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y