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Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
I heard that very recently in a movie, just cannot recall which one.
TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
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Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#22> For each of our companies to donate $256,000 in monthly installments over the next two years, with Synadia matching TigerBeetle, for a total of $512,000 Why over 2 years? Like VC investment, Id assume a lump sum up front allow them to move faster with that money (hiring the right people sooner, etc.) I wonder if projects like this care more about predictability of income (e.g. not hiring people depending on future…
This is a donation, not an investment in the VC sense.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#23Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#24> For each of our companies to donate $256,000 in monthly installments over the next two years, with Synadia matching TigerBeetle, for a total of $512,000 Why over 2 years? Like VC investment, Id assume a lump sum up front allow them to move faster with that money (hiring the right people sooner, etc.) I wonder if projects like this care more about predictability of income (e.g. not hiring people depending on future…
I assume it’s being budgeted out of their monthly cash flow, not coming out of cash reserves.
> Id assume a lump sum up front allow them to move faster with that money (hiring the right people sooner, etc.)
On the other hand, the monthly payments mean they’re less likely to overcommit their spending up front.
If they’re hiring someone with twice-monthly paychecks, receiving the money up front doesn’t make much difference unless they want to hire based on projections of higher future donations, which is a risky move.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#25In performing an assessment of which ecosystem and PL to use to develop our high-integrity automation software for mission-critical applications, we assessed Rust, Zig, and Ada/SPARK. Rust had the support behind it from a big corp., a passionate developer community, and some adoption by significant entities, but none with cyber-physical systems. And it has been interesting to see some developers leaving Rust for Zig…
>leaving Rust for Zig for the sheer enjoyment of using it instead. What do people find more enjoyable?
Speaking for myself, the community is more humble and kind on the zig side, and their chats are more on-topic.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#26In performing an assessment of which ecosystem and PL to use to develop our high-integrity automation software for mission-critical applications, we assessed Rust, Zig, and Ada/SPARK. Rust had the support behind it from a big corp., a passionate developer community, and some adoption by significant entities, but none with cyber-physical systems. And it has been interesting to see some developers leaving Rust for Zig…
>leaving Rust for Zig for the sheer enjoyment of using it instead. What do people find more enjoyable?
Zig is orders of magnitude more pleasant and enjoyable to use than Rust.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#27In performing an assessment of which ecosystem and PL to use to develop our high-integrity automation software for mission-critical applications, we assessed Rust, Zig, and Ada/SPARK. Rust had the support behind it from a big corp., a passionate developer community, and some adoption by significant entities, but none with cyber-physical systems. And it has been interesting to see some developers leaving Rust for Zig…
>leaving Rust for Zig for the sheer enjoyment of using it instead. What do people find more enjoyable?
Some people enjoy the relative simplicity and straight forwardness of C, some folks enjoy the flexibility and zero cost abstractions C++ gives you.
Some people can appreciate both. I actually like both languages for different reasons and I don't really understand why they're consistently being pitted against each other. Language wars are... for lack of a more appropriate and less-crass term... stupid.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#28In performing an assessment of which ecosystem and PL to use to develop our high-integrity automation software for mission-critical applications, we assessed Rust, Zig, and Ada/SPARK. Rust had the support behind it from a big corp., a passionate developer community, and some adoption by significant entities, but none with cyber-physical systems. And it has been interesting to see some developers leaving Rust for Zig…
>leaving Rust for Zig for the sheer enjoyment of using it instead. What do people find more enjoyable?
Zig feels like a better C with modern tooling. It is a tool that works for me.
Rust feels like a better C++ with modern tooling. I am a tool that works for it.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#29That's about 1 year's worth of salary of a full-time dev.
Re: TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
#30That's about 1 year's worth of salary of a full-time dev.
No, it’s not.