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Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) by fiforpg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:50AM (#50004718)
To be fair, NSF grants for pure mathematicians were never as substantial as for applied sciences, but they would routinely reach 500k–1M territory. That's the amount going to a single proposal, and grant panels in, say, analysis would definitely spend millions per application season. NSF funding data is public and can be looked up.

I'm using past tense because iirc NSF has recently reduced their funding volumes, although I'm not following the situation very closely.

Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) by chadcmulligan on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:27AM (#50031465)
From what I've read they had PM's and a team, a small Manhattan style project, I've never heard of a maths project being tackled this way, it would be interesting to duplicate with people.