I actually really like Zig's stance on this. Not having company members on the Board + trying to employ developers from the community helps with the issues that Rust is currently facing. Of course due to Rust's history things work differently, but hopefully Steve's comments will get them to look at this issue more critically
I guess this is one of the benefits of having the language direction owned by a single author - they might feel a bit more empowered to make this kind of principled stance in the face of strong incentives to trade funding for corporate guidance.
Sure, but we're not just doing things out of principle. We have a clear plan on how to be sustainable without giving up seats. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, there are some compromises to make, but we know what we want and what we're willing to give up in exchange.
Zig is a very immature language without any real corporate backing. Things get hard when an open source project gets mature and incredibly useful for corporations.
Well, this is already starting to change. As an example Coil (coil.com) has written a distributed financial database called TigerBeetle (tigerbeetle.com) entirely in Zig. All of this will be part of the open source stack that they plan to offer to third paties that want to get into the interledger (interledger.org) business, a piece of financial infrastructure key to make web monetization (webmonetization.org) real, among other things.
