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How to fund Rust contributors (blog.rust-lang.org)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/rust@programming.dev

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

I wonder if those numbers are high, because nobody actually works full time, and part time requires you to switch contexts and only bill for the time you actively work (unlike what ordinary full-time employment looks like) and they just extrapolated from that.