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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

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165 points smlavine | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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zapnuk ◴[03 Sep 25 07:51 UTC] No.45113270[source]▶
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.

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geokon ◴[03 Sep 25 10:19 UTC] No.45114111[source]▶
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.
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1. SchwKatze ◴[03 Sep 25 13:06 UTC] No.45115256[source]▶
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.