Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

[bachmeier]

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.