Re:The V Programming Language is open source
by staticassertion on Saturday June 22, 2019 @07:07PM
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"limited available fund" ah yes, the software industry really does barely manage to scrape by, good point.
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Re:The V Programming Language is open source
by lifthrasiir on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:41PM
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Funding programming language development via Patreon is relatively new that it might be a reasonable characterization. I do think that many PL projects are underfunded and should have better BMs to sustain itself, and one positive aspect of V is that it showed you can actually have a good chance of sustainable cash inflow with proper marketing (more generally, [1] is a good start).
[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-tea...