Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software. Choosing Zig for TigerBeetle I first saw Zig in 2018, seven years ago. Two years later, I chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle. Why not Rust? In 2020, I was following Rust closely. 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, which would become a part of TigerStyle, a methodology for creating safer software in less time. Simplified Memory Management What I learned is that if you could centralize…
