I Quit My Cushy Job at OkCupid to Live on Donations to Zig
Read OriginalThe author, a senior backend engineer, quit his job at OkCupid to dedicate himself full-time to developing the Zig programming language, supported by monthly donations. He details his transition from maintaining legacy C++ code to pursuing his passion for Zig, his planned roadmap for the language (including a self-hosted compiler and package manager), and his new daily work routine focused on features, bugs, and documentation.
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