[HN Gopher] 300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto
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300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto
Author : rc00
Score : 87 points
Date : 2024-10-01 18:27 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| samspenc wrote:
| JFYI for anyone who may not know, the donor is the co-founder of
| HashiCorp which was acquired by IBM earlier this year for $6B
| https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm
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| He wrote about the donation on his own blog as well
| https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation
| steveBK123 wrote:
| Worth noting the merger is announced but neither (edit:
| regulatory) approved nor completed.
| hiccuphippo wrote:
| He is also writting a terminal emulator called ghostty with
| zig: https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
| popularonion wrote:
| I read https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/ but I'm
| still not clear on the endgame for this language. Is the plan to
| kill both Rust and Go?
| rgrmrts wrote:
| No, the plan is to build a simple general purpose language.
| Lots of folks already enjoy using Zig, and not every language
| has to be in direct competition with others.
| kristoff_it wrote:
| We don't have VC money so the only endgame is to gift Zig to
| people who happen to find it an effective tool, so that they
| can make more software you can love.
| AndyKelley wrote:
| Endgame: After creating a language that encourages programmers
| to make robust and optimal software, using a toolchain that
| exemplifies these ideals by providing an order of magnitude
| faster development iteration speed, point this energy towards
| the ecosystem, with a focus on our core principle of
| prioritizing the needs of end users. Building upon this rich
| ecosystem of high quality software, create and maintain free,
| libre, and open-source applications that outcompete proprietary
| versions. I want to see the next Blender, the next Postgresql,
| the next Linux. This is my vision.
|
| Mitchell's Ghostty project is a perfect example of this
| movement. At least, it will be when it is open sourced.
| rc00 wrote:
| > I want to see the next Blender, the next Postgresql, the
| next Linux. This is my vision.
|
| Do you think it makes sense to augment these existing (and
| successful) open source projects with Zig (language and/or
| toolchain)? Or should something grassroots and written
| primarily in Zig be their eventual successor?
| AndyKelley wrote:
| Now that you mention it I forgot an important one! I want
| to see the next VLC. And in fact J-B has mentioned on IRC
| that he would be interested to see contributions to the
| project using Zig.
| skywhopper wrote:
| Why would it need to kill anything? It's enough to be useful,
| imo.
| mahmoudimus wrote:
| Thank you, Mitchell Hashimoto. I have always wondered why folks
| who made their fortunes of technology do not give back
| consistently. You are part of the few folks such as Jan Koum,
| Gabriel Weinberg and I'm sure there others who I have failed to
| mentioned. Thank you.
| steveBK123 wrote:
| Yeah agreed. You basically see small time donations, or boomers
| once they have their $50B+ pile of money pledging to give it
| away at death. Not a lot of big incremental giving in between
| by $100M-$1B class.
|
| I mean Gates is doing good work on poverty & global health for
| sure, but hes quite the exception.
|
| You don't see the durable institutions like new universities
| being setup like after the gilded age. Not sure if its a tax
| code thing or what.
|
| One thought I've had, living in NYC, is that there are just
| businesses structured to take every incremental dollar out of
| you whether you are worth $0/$100K/$100M/$100B now. $100M
| condos in 5 different cities, $1M supercars, private jets,
| blade chopper from Manhattan to the jet, just so many ways to
| part fools from their cash.
|
| For context, David Rockefeller's old NYC townhouse, which he
| lived in for 70 years, was for sale, post-renovation, for $50M
| or so. Rockefeller name synonymous with old money wealth.
|
| These days though, a $50M apartment might not even crack the
| top 10 sales annually in 2020s NYC. New money is also hot money
| by comparison.. I really do think our vintage of wealthy are
| that much more rapacious.
| Sphax wrote:
| That's great to see, I've been using zig on and off for the past
| 3 years, I really like the language so I'm happy to see it
| gaining even more traction
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