Igalia's open prioritization experiment for contributing to browsers (opens in new tab)

> Bloomberg paid Igalia to implement CSS Grid in Chromium and Webkit

Oh wow I knew Igalia was an employee-owned open source company, but I assumed they were a very minor consultancy like you see lots of open source programmers running to do a couple of contracts here and there. I didn't know they were operating at the level where companies like Bloomberg were going to them. That's an incredible sign of their maturity.

I think I also read something about how they pay everyone in the company the same?

Igalia has contributed immensely to web standard implementations. Not just CSS Grid, but CSS Containment, CSS Text, various improvements to using Chromium on Linux (Wayland), Object.entries, BigInt in WebAssembly, Private Methods.

To Chromium alone, they're the second biggest contributor, aside from Google[0].

[0]https://speakerdeck.com/mariospr/summary-of-igalias-contribu...

I wish I had the chops to work there, honestly. I've always dreamed of working on a browser, but alas, I don't know C++.

Yes! We've contributed loads to each of them. Here's a summary I wrote at the end of last year https://bkardell.com/blog/2019-Wrap.html - #2 contributor to Chromium, #2 contributor to WebKit, top 10 to Firefox last year.