Pledging Another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
147 points by vpol
147 points by vpol
Mitchell has been incredibly kind to the Zig project & community. Funnily enough his financial support is both impressive and at the same time not the most valuable of his contributions to Zig.
Thank you Mitchell and family!
This is quite generous philanthropy. It's inspiring, and if I ever find myself in a financial position to do so, I hope that I would make a similar choice for the groups that I want to see endure a long time.
That said, as a person who's been involved in operating non-profits for a very long time, every little bit helps. Maybe go start a monthly subscription of just even $5 to your favorite language backing foundation or to a nonprofit that does work you want to see more of.
As an aside, I wonder what other language ecosystems have had such significant donations pledged and or delivered from an individual donor.
Maybe go start a monthly subscription of just even $5 to your favorite language backing foundation or to a nonprofit that does work you want to see more of.
It took a long, long time for Rust to get a foundation organized. I get that it isn't easy or fun work to set up though.
Happy for the Zig foundation, but unsure how to feel in general.
As a favor to someone (me!) who's feeling out of the loop, can you explain the reference? Who's the guy in the picture with Netanyahu? What does he have to do with Mitchell Hashimoto or the Zig foundation? Or is it Netanyahu himself who has something to do with it?
Sorry, I know I could dig around and find what you mean. But I'm tired, boss. Trying to track connections to connections to people who are responsible for bad shit in the world is kinda wearing me out, and I assume you already know what you mean. So I'd be grateful if you could say it.
Sorry for the terseness. yorickpeterse and daylin already wrote the important things, so I'm just going to add: look at the timestamps. In September of last year, from where I'm standing, Netanyahu was already a persona non grata in the circles of people opposed to, you know, indiscriminate slaughter of humans. The other photo/the board membership was after that.
I couldn't not care, but obviously people can.
I do care about it, and thank you for understanding my question the way I meant it and taking your time to explain.
Ugh.
you are going to have to show me anywhere that has happened in recent history. Israel surely hasn't. you are exhibiting ignorance of the issue at hand and that of war in general.
The man with the mustache is the CEO of Vercel. Mitchell joined the board of directors and there's a group/team picture of the two together.
It's difficult to draw clear conclusions from this, but at the same time it's problematic there's a connection between Mitchell and somebody who by virtue of being totally cool with Netanyahu is apparently also cool with an ongoing genocide.
One might consider this not related to Zig and to some degree that's true, but it is relevant to see and be aware of where money is coming from and what the stance of the people behind that is.
The pastor who lead the service at my mom's funeral mentioned that his grandfather was a young boy when Abraham Lincoln was alive and apparently shook Lincoln's hand at a parade or similar event. So the pastor shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln and was quite proud of it.
Since then I have been wondering how many people have shaken the hands of people who shook hands with Hitler and don't even know about it.
Since then I have been wondering how many people have shaken the hands of people who shook hands with Hitler and don't even know about it.
Good ol' Erdős number.
Thanks for patiently connecting some dots for me. I hate that the state of the world right now is such that: (a) genocide is even a possibility and (b) said genocide could possibly be topical to discussions of how somebody who went off and cashed out after a pretty-damn-interesting software development career is donating a bunch of money to help develop his new favorite programming language.
Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO) has associated himself with Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitchell Hashimoto has joined the board of directors at Vercel.
Wow, that is disturbing. Nothing to do directly with Zig, though.
Nothing to do directly with Zig, though.
Depending on if it's Hashicorp or Vercel money, you could probably find someone who disagrees. I'm honestly torn.
I guess, at least, it should be able to be presumed to be Hashicorp money.
IBM paid $6+ Billion for Hashicorp according to my web searching.
BoD jobs are not usually paid engagements, and, while I have no personal knowledge of the Hashimoto family's finances, even a very early investment in Vercel would be dwarfed by what came from Hashicorp when it comes to what'd be available to write a check to Zig Software Foundation.