> CI & Website $14,986.73
What a waste of money, seriously
What a waste of money, seriously
Source: https://rustfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Annual...
$15k seems pretty lean to me for Zig since it includes hardware purchases.
Rust was hated not because of Zig or any other languages, but their Rust Evangelism Strike Force. Some day these comparison may back fire. Zig can stand on its own now, and already quite widely known. May be best to have peace rather than war.
Just my ( may be useless ) 2 cents.
There's no war here, only facts that help an ignorant person gain perspective about how much things cost.
Of course comparisons are inevitable or to be helpful, but then let consumers choose what they like and find to be useful. Leadership should not be seen by everyone as in the forefront of throwing gas on the flames, displaying unprofessional behavior, or allow themselves to be known as the face of toxicity.
The RESF became unbearable because Rust leaders quietly encouraged language wars online, and especially offline. Zig should avoid that fate.
Don’t find myself choosing between rust/zig after using them both a decent amount
Rust gets at least a 1000x more usage than Zig, so their infrastructure costs are not as bad in comparison.
1. I highly doubt your ballpark estimate.
2. I don't think CIs care that much how many users a language has, they care about the number of computations they need to run for each commit/merge.
To give you a sense of Rust’s growth, check out this proxy for usage (https://lib.rs/stats). Usage roughly doubled each year for 10 years. 2^10 = 1,024. It’s possible Zig could manage a similar adoption rate after reaching 1.0, but right now it’s probably where Rust was in 2015.
> CIs don’t scale with the number of users
Each Rust release involves a crater run, where they try to compile every open source Rust repo to check for regressions. This costs money and scales with the number of repos out there. But it is true, this only happens once in 6 weeks.
But I think the factor that makes a bigger difference is that Rusts code bases are larger and CI takes longer to run on each commit.
And Rust compilations are much slower too.
Rust is used in production by many companies out there.
But if it's also including the cost of all the CI and build steps for the entirety of Zig infra?
That seems pretty reasonable for me. Although maybe my cousin Katie could do it for 1/10th the price in WordPress
We don't know much of it was burned to cloud. Perhaps in 2026 report in will be $0 (or just electricity costs) because it all runs in-house.