As my little side project, we pioneered html-templates, wasm-bindgen string interning, macro hot-reloading, macro auto-formatting, multi-platform builds, native HTML/css rendering, and a number of other "awesome" things before raising a dollar.
Users want a guarantee the project isn't going to disappear tomorrow and sadly 100 bucks a month on open collective isn't a great guarantee.
I'm particularly excited about your research on actually hot-reloading Rust binary code. I hope it leads to reduced incremental compilation times (IIUC).
VC capital is just one indicator. Maybe you can answer:
Do you require a CLA or copyright assignment? I don't see it on the GitHub page but then again other projects (like MongoDB) have hidden theirs pretty well.
How many of the contributors are directly payed for their contributions?
There's no CLA. Dioxus is MIT/Apache-2 licensed.
> How many of the contributors are directly payed for their contributions?
I unfortunately feel like you're asking this in bad faith. Our team is very small, we're very lean, and we have funding sources that aren't just venture. We also have a very active community and people are building new libraries and becoming dioxus contributors every day.
https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/releases/tag/v0.6.0 (scroll to contributors)
If you say your team is small I understand that it is not the majority of contributors that are on your payroll and that is good enough for me to see Dioxus as a real community project.
Thanks for your answers.