On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time
paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this
new funding:
https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/08/07/nim-partners-with-status.html
D should also be trying to raise resources like this, though it
doesn't have to be corporate funding from one source. This
company funding Nim raised $100 million in an ICO last year to
build some kind of cryptocurrency-oriented mobile apps platform:
We now have the D Language Foundation. They are doing what they
can to raise this type of funding AFAICT.
We may already have more than the equivalent of two full-time
devs being funded. There are graduate students working on the
compiler, Symmetry Autumn of Code (not an insignificant amount of
money), and Symmetry has funded a lot of good work by Ilya that
forms the foundation for scientific/data computing. Then there is
the successful funding to improve the IDE situation.
It's great for Nim that a company has decided they like the
language and want to help get it into the state that they need to
conduct their business. I'm not sure the risk of losing that kind
of funding and being willing to change the language to suit one
company's needs is a perfect solution. Rich Hickey actually
stopped taking that kind of money, because everyone thought they
could attach strings to it.
