Support WASIX in Zig Lang

https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/4218

by syrusakbary • 3 years ago

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thatxliner• 3 years ago

I thought Zig's community was decentralized.

jadbox• 3 years ago

Decentralized is a very broad and open ended term. Arguably it means nothing-and-everything, without context provided. I'm not familiar with Zig to know their definition.

waynr• 3 years ago

For what you want done, $5k likely isn't enough, and here's why:

The kind of work you want done requires specialized knowledge of several domains (or the ability to quickly develop an understanding). The kind of people who already have that specialized knowledge or who can get up to speed that quickly typically get paid on the order of $200k/year (but probably often much more) in terms of base salary. If you consider that after taxes that can be as low as $150k/year or less banked, that translates into roughly $2884/week.

After taxes, your $5k offering is going to be roughly as low as $3k - $3.5k banked.

So what you're really saying is "here's potentially several months worth of work that we want you to do for not much more than what you would make elsewhere in 1 week and you're not going to see a dime until we see results".

Considering this could take up to two or three months of dedicated time and effort, here are more reasonable terms:

* $3k/week retainer (before taxes so this is less than what a skilled dev would get working full time but necessary for you to attract talent and take on part of the risk yourself)

* weekly progress check-ins

* $5k for C programs compiled with Zig targeting wasix-libc running in Wasmer

* $7.5k for Zig programs compiled and running in Wasmer

* $2.5k for all Zig changes merged upstream

* $1k/bug retainer for future maintenance on this new Zig feature

syrusakbary• 3 years ago

I think it would probably take me around two or three weeks max of dedicated time to develop. People in the Zig community were even more optimistic on timings.

The sponsorship quantity is actually based on such estimation

Support WASIX in Zig Lang

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