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Comment by gdxhyrd | Hacker News Reader

If you need reliable support, you have to pay someone. It does not matter which project you are talking about.

https://www.patreon.com/godotengine

I can’t remember if the team is getting outside funding from grants or such, but this is the main payment system I believe.

They mention that Mozilla supports their HTML5/WASM efforts, which makes sense

Godot Engine was awarded $50,000 in 2019 by Mozilla as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program. Godot also received a MOSS grant of $20,000 in 2016.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-awarded-50000-m...

I'm not asking for support. Godot could definitely go the for-profit route and charge for cloud builds and other features like Unity does. I just want to make sure that if I invest in learning the tool as well as I know Unity that it'll be around for the next few years.

> that it'll be around for the next few years.

How is continuing development not "support"?

Continuing development is continuing development ... support is answering questions on forums, responding to issues on github, community management, that sort of thing.

I could be wrong, but I believe that's what they mean when they say they hired a "generalist" this year to help cover off those things. It's not a direct 1:1 of "I pay, I get support", but donating will be intrinsically linked to it and seems part of their overall plan for the future.

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