Comment by skrebbel
2 days ago
Ziglang is a small organization supported by donations, Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world. If anything, they're punching up.
Calling people losers isn't classy, but if I were a well-paid Microsoft employee I'd laugh all the way to the bank that some community funded purist called me that. If it's supposed to be bullying he isn't very good at it.
They're not punching Microsoft.
They're punching employees on a team. People with less freedom and autonomy than the Ziglang ICs.
On the scale of FAANG comp, Microsoft is at the lower end of the scale. I've had several jobs making more in TC than Microsofties.
According to Zig's financials https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/, Andrew himself makes more money than a few staff engineers I know there.