Also if anyone has any suggestions on how to fund myself doing this kind of work in Motoko that would be great
Its hard to sell/slow to go through the grant program for misc infrastructure work in Motoko. It needs so many things but people are always looking for the ‘big’ libraries that everyone will use and create lots of value.
Public good funding ain’t great
My current method is to have larger projects for grants, like Liminal (http framework) and my upcoming AT Protocol project, then any reusable code that I can spin out of those I make MOPS libraries for. It works alright but don’t know how sustainable it is (so far its not lol)
Also it doesn’t seem like there are a lot of private companies building on Motoko to get funding from, so I dont see a lot of options