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

[I Lindström]

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.