Sponsorship #101
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What kind of sponsorship did you have in mind? |
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I was thinking on a mid-size sponsorship ($100/month, we don't have big pockets just yet!). But in general, the sponsorship is way more open ended and a way to show love for the project. I think Virgil has great qualities that make it ideal for a fast-to-compile/fast-to-run GC language :) |
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When I look at where gaps are, I think the limiting resource is more engineering and development time, rather than funding atm. E.g. if a volunteer were to work on WASI support in Virgil, that would help make progress on that front. |
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I'd love to spend eng resources on that but unfortunately that's a bit hard for us at the moment. If I was familiar with Virgil I'd do that myself, but I still haven't reached that point. I suggested sponsorship mainly because I wanted to cheer on the project. |
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One idea might be to sponsor a project (or a contest!) that could be carried out by a student or internet denizen. So, for example, a $1000 prize for the most (fast, complete, readable) implementation of something important. For my part I've been thinking of putting $3k-$5k of my own money to sponsor a register allocation project (actually, contest!). |
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You just gave me an idea. Perhaps Wasmer can do something similar, sponsoring also $2,500 on this project towards this goals:
The only thing is this would be a bounty more than a contest (but we are good with this, it's just a different approach) Other thing that we can do is that someone more experience does that as the ground work (for example, we handle the wapm integration and someone else handle the wasi integration), and then we create a contest to do cool things on top of Virgil |
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That sounds like a great idea! In general, bootstrapping on WASI should be a very doable project. The stretch goal would be to implement a lot more on top of WASI to Virgil a really good development language. I think we should do this! |
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Awesome. What should be the next steps? |
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Sure, we can talk later this week. Feel free to send me an email to set up a time. |
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Tried searching around, but couldn't find your email (mine is syrus@wasmer.io) We can try to see if any time available here would work for you: https://calendly.com/syrus-wasmer (Wednesday 21 -tomorrow- would work great for me) |
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Hi @titzer ,
I'm great admirer Virgil and the work you are doing with wizard-engine. I was wondering if you may be interested in setting up sponsorship for the project, so we can start spreading the love from Wasmer.
I think Virgil has really great potential for the future and it might be ready for some prime time!
Note: Wasmer already sponsors Zig, Mold and other great software!
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