Pledging $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation

# Pledging $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation Source: [https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation](https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation) My wife and I have pledged $300,000[1](https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation#user-content-fn-1)to the[Zig Software Foundation](https://ziglang.org/zsf/)\(ZSF\)\. The ZSF has[posted their own announcement](https://ziglang.org/news/300k-from-mitchellh/)which clearly explains their mission and specifically what the money will be used for\. Instead, I want to talk more broadly about why we've decided to support ZSF\. I've been following the Zig project since sometime in 2019\. I publicly[shared my excitement about the project in 2021](https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1435670230215192579)\. I started using Zig later that year and by early 2022, I began[writing about Zig](https://mitchellh.com/zig)plus[contributing to the compiler](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10751), and I've continued to make[a few dozen code contributions](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Amitchellh)since then\. In 2023, I publicly shared my[terminal project Ghostty](https://mitchellh.com/ghostty)which is written in Zig\. Today, I spend most of my coding time in Zig\. My family enjoys supporting causes we believe in[2](https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation#user-content-fn-2)\. As part of this, we want to support independent software projects that we believe can be transformative and impactful, both as a way to give back to the community that gave me so much but more importantly as a way to highlight and encourage a culture of building for the love of building\. Zig is one of those projects\. Zig was started as and continues to be a huge passion project\. It is well managed, the community is strong, and the funding model is transparent and sustainable\. As a technology, it is ambitious and innovative, but still practical and pragmatic\. It has a long way to go to reach stability and broader industry adoption, but I believe it has a clear path and opportunity to get there\. We're proud to support Zig and the Zig Software Foundation and are excited to see what the future holds for the project\. As a reminder, around[a third of the funding for ZSF](https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/)comes from individual donations\. Please consider[donating](https://ziglang.org/zsf/)if you can\. Thanks Andrew for starting an amazing project and to the entire Zig community for making it what it is today\! 1. Paid out in annual $150,000 installments over two years\. The first installment has already been transferred\.[↩](https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation#user-content-fnref-1) 2. Our philanthropy is generally private, but I'm making an exception since I think my public support of Zig has a chance to really help the project due to my background\.[↩](https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation#user-content-fnref-2)