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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

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165 points smlavine | 3 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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WhereIsTheTruth ◴[03 Sep 25 04:24 UTC] No.45112232[source]▶
> CI & Website $14,986.73

What a waste of money, seriously

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pabs3 ◴[03 Sep 25 06:38 UTC] No.45112869[source]▶
Meanwhile, Debian spends $0 on CI, buildds, website, package distribution. Its all donated by hardware/CDN/hosting partners.
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1. dns_snek ◴[03 Sep 25 06:49 UTC] No.45112935[source]▶
Zig team didn't want to be beholden to the whims of outside sponsors which is an understandable position.
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2. pabs3 ◴[05 Sep 25 00:59 UTC] No.45133963[source]▶
They are still dependent on sponsors, just ones that donate cash instead of resources.
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3. dns_snek ◴[05 Sep 25 12:21 UTC] No.45137680[source]▶
That's true but I'm pretty sure that the goal is to have a large number of individual sponsors. A handful of large corporate sponsors can later try to use their sponsorship to exert unwanted influence over the project.