On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 11:42:57 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
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.
Ah. This cleared things up a bit. Thank you. It seemed to be one
way but apparently wasn't. I stand corrected.
In that case things look decent enough for me to stop worrying
about this too much. And yeah, if it's a common occurance that
companies try to highjack things, then it's better to be careful.
Enough things have been run to the ground by Big Bucks starting
to meddle in things without knowhow or vision. Didn't know it was
that common.
