This is probably not worth losing sleep over. OpenAI are not the only Platinum Member, nor the biggest contributor to the Rust Foundation. Microsoft and Google have both contributed at least $1 million each, going by previous press releases. See here for a list of the foundation members
It’s independant and less biased.
Rust has really fallen into drama and also political stuff with megacorps. Rust definitely has a firm place for future, but I would say Rust is more similar to java and Zig is more similar to C in that manner.
I think I did!
Rust has lots of corporate and political backing from big companies and political/security firms (FBI, pentagon etc) and zig is more free and has less governance and backing, less politics involved.
Those companies and firms back Rust because it’s memory safe without a garbage collector, and great for general purpose programming or systems programming. That’s super important for everyone, but especially large companies working on high performance or mission critical software.
Zig is not memory safe so it’s a non-starter for these things, and has not proven itself in the industry anywhere near what Rust has.
This has nothing to do with Rust being “corporate” or anything wrong with Rust.
This is probably not worth losing sleep over. OpenAI are not the only Platinum Member, nor the biggest contributor to the Rust Foundation. Microsoft and Google have both contributed at least $1 million each, going by previous press releases. See here for a list of the foundation members
I think in terms of policies and politics, Zig has a much better and sustainable future
How so?
It’s independant and less biased. Rust has really fallen into drama and also political stuff with megacorps. Rust definitely has a firm place for future, but I would say Rust is more similar to java and Zig is more similar to C in that manner.
You’re gonna have to elaborate on that… How so?
I think I did! Rust has lots of corporate and political backing from big companies and political/security firms (FBI, pentagon etc) and zig is more free and has less governance and backing, less politics involved.
Those companies and firms back Rust because it’s memory safe without a garbage collector, and great for general purpose programming or systems programming. That’s super important for everyone, but especially large companies working on high performance or mission critical software.
Zig is not memory safe so it’s a non-starter for these things, and has not proven itself in the industry anywhere near what Rust has.
This has nothing to do with Rust being “corporate” or anything wrong with Rust.
Also, Foundation members have no say on the direction of the language.