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300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto

October 01, 2024 The donation is structured in two 150k USD payments, one due right away, the second one year from now. Over the last couple of years the Zig project has grown significantly both in terms of adoption and number of contributors, to the point where the amount of development activity has outpaced the amount of donations we are getting.

We currently have a rapidly growing number of PRs that need to be reviewed, and a list of core contributors qualified to do the work, but not enough funding for billable hours in order to fully meet demand. We are thankful to both individual donors, and the companies that have adopted Zig and wisely decided to invest in the long-term sustainability of their software infrastructure. Just last week we moved away from AWS in order to nip in the bud growing cloud infrastructure costs and, even before that, more than 90% of our income has consistently gone toward paying contributors for their time.

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