That's great! I appreciate the full transparency here. I'm a GitHub sponsor for $5/mo, not because I actually use Zig (yet?) but because I'm interested in how this experiment goes.
Andy Kelley has been doing a lot of development very publicly (check Zig's issue tracker!) and I feel I've gotten some value just out of watching his process unfold, in terms of community interaction, prioritization of features, brief exploratory experiments, etc.
Plus, he seems to have, I dunno, great "taste" in language design (though I realize this is very subjective), so maybe Zig will end up somewhere great.
This. I feel something similar. It is kind of way things are arranged, the simple layout of repository, or that on average zig src file has ~500 lines of code (for Swift/Rust, it is 65/80 respectively). So yes, it is all subjective. I also feel as if zig is like more time/money is spent on books and not on bookshelves.
I'm really happy Zig is gaining momentum. I do hope they can raise more money. If people are paid as freelancers, 50$ is a really low compensation. You'll have to pay health insurance, retirement etc. out of your own pocket. In Germany, the rule of thumb is if you're earning below ~70€ / hour as a freelance sw dev, it is better to be employed.
The article says that in the next two years they would like to get it up to $75 an hour and it cites the things you said as reasons why. So I believe they are in agreement with you
For how many hours billable? If you were comfortably billing 40 hours a week for 48 weeks a year that would amount to €134.400 / year. Assuming that Germany isn’t _that_ different from the Netherlands, good luck earning that while employed as an average sw dev. Insurance and retirement isn’t that expensive.
In Sweden the general rule of thumb is that as a freelancer you should charge 2.4x what you want to (or normally) net since you are responsible for your own vacation-pay, sick-pay, time between projects etc. on top of taxes and expenses.
I really don't understand the title changes sometimes. I have no idea who Jakub Konka is. On the other hand, the old title communicated that this hiring was the first for Zig, which gives me far more context, and a prompt for my next thought which was "huh, how does that work?" That value is gone now.
[+] [-] losvedir|5 years ago|reply
Andy Kelley has been doing a lot of development very publicly (check Zig's issue tracker!) and I feel I've gotten some value just out of watching his process unfold, in terms of community interaction, prioritization of features, brief exploratory experiments, etc.
Plus, he seems to have, I dunno, great "taste" in language design (though I realize this is very subjective), so maybe Zig will end up somewhere great.
[+] [-] geodel|5 years ago|reply
This. I feel something similar. It is kind of way things are arranged, the simple layout of repository, or that on average zig src file has ~500 lines of code (for Swift/Rust, it is 65/80 respectively). So yes, it is all subjective. I also feel as if zig is like more time/money is spent on books and not on bookshelves.
[+] [-] MrBuddyCasino|5 years ago|reply
I'm really happy Zig is gaining momentum. I do hope they can raise more money. If people are paid as freelancers, 50$ is a really low compensation. You'll have to pay health insurance, retirement etc. out of your own pocket. In Germany, the rule of thumb is if you're earning below ~70€ / hour as a freelance sw dev, it is better to be employed.
[+] [-] Decabytes|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] whb07|5 years ago|reply
Got to start somewhere.
[+] [-] JediPig|5 years ago|reply
A language ran by one guy to challenge the most popular language ever, epic mistake.
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