Comment by echelon
1 day ago
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.