• ericjmorey
    27·
    2 months ago

    FYI the person with enough money to donate $300,000 to a programming language foundation is the founder of HashiCorp.

  • KissakiEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    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!

  • wargreymon@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    2 months ago

    Good decision, zig is the next big boi of low level language. 💪🏻

    Rust too complicated implies too much tech debt.

    • spacecadet@lemm.ee
      61·
      2 months ago

      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.