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by valbaca
1792 days ago
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You're right, the name of the company or FAANG-ness doesn't matter. I didn't claim only FAANG sponsorship matters, but it is important and even more important, the amount of $ does. I also never said it wasn't "real" sponsorship or didn't count. Don't put words in my mouth. I said it isn't a level comparison. > any company sponsoring Rust other than Mozilla Mozilla? never heard of them. I only know FAANG apparently /s Also, Ocaml has supporters such as Bloomberg and Mitsubishi. Not exactly mom-and-pop startups. Again, I'm not exactly sure what you're arguing. I'm literally a sponsor of Crystal. I put my money where my mouth is. |
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Also you:
> Also, Ocaml has supporters such as Bloomberg and Mitsubishi. Not exactly mom-and-pop startups.
Perhaps Jane Street is also another mom-and-pop startup then. /s
So they (Bloomberg, and Mitsubishi) somehow matter because they're "Not exactly mom-and-pop startups" even though you also said, "the amount of money they are giving matters". Given the OCaml sponsorship levels [0], Bloomberg (Silver) donates around $1250 - $2084 a month and Mitsubishi (Bronze) around $416 - $1249. That is still less than the monthly amount that either Nikola Motor or 84 Codes is putting in combined.
Nikola Motor isn't not a startup and still sponsors and uses Crystal. It seems that they have alot of money left over every month to throw at Crystal even before it reached 1.0.
> I said it isn't a level comparison.
Then congratulations to Crystal for getting sponsors (and companies sponsoring it) even before 1.0 then. They'll probably get more even after 1.0 then.
Never saw that in Rust before the foundation was formed (which should have been done earlier) since its actually Google again (not Mozilla) feeding the majority of the sponsorship funds to Mozilla.
> Again, I'm not exactly sure what you're arguing. I'm literally a sponsor of Crystal. I put my money where my mouth is.
Good and so do the companies that still use Crystal to this day even before 1.0. At least individuals can sponsor it as I mentioned previously. Unlike Go, whose fate is ultimately in the hands of Google for any decision they make for the language.
[0] https://ocaml-sf.org/becoming-a-sponsor/