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Pledging $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation(mitchellh.com)

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

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Kissaki@programming.dev
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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!

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@modev@snac.bsd.cafe
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Not so bad in foss…
This is great example.

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wargreymon@sh.itjust.works
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Good decision, zig is the next big boi of low level language. 💪🏻

Rust too complicated implies too much tech debt.

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ericjmorey@programming.dev
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It seems there’s room for both

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spacecadet@lemm.ee
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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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