Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to Zig Software Foundation for Language Development
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Synadia and TigerBeetle have pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over two years to support the Zig programming language, its leadership, and community development. The article details the author's journey with Zig, starting from first encountering it in 2018 to choosing it over C and Rust for TigerBeetle in 2020. The decision was influenced by Zig's approach to memory management and its alignment with NASA's Power of Ten Rules for safety-critical code, which emphasizes explicit static allocation over Rust's default out-of-memory crash behavior.
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I first saw Zig in 2018, seven years ago. Two years later, I chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle.
At the time, Rust's default memory philosophy was to crash when out of memory (OOM). However, for TigerBeetle, I wanted explicit static allocation, following NASA's Power of Ten Rules for Safety-Critical Code.
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