Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

Kudos to bun for investing in a promising technology.

Does the Zig Foundation have a policy against corporate sponsors?

Otherwise the lack of sponsoring from the "big players" seems rather shocking. You'd think that zig has a decent chance in helping MS/Meta/Google/etc. somewhere along the way.

> Does the Zig Foundation have a policy against corporate sponsors?

Not at all. We would be definitely open & happy to learn that one of the big companies are using Zig and would be interested in supporting us.

(but we don't plan to give up board seats)

Since it's not a 1.0, it seems at face value it's be difficult for a "big player" to use it in production. As far as I understand, breaking changes are expected.

Can't wait for Microsoft to release Zag in 2027.

Yeah, makes sense, 1.0 is probably a critical point for a project like this, where from it, "big players" start trusting its business to the lang and therefore having a high interest on funding.

But it's kind of a chicken and egg problem: they need more money to keep doing its great work and thrive to reach 1.0 but good money comes from 1.0 and beyond.