Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation(mitchellh.com)
791 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 268 comments
tl;dr: Mitchell Hashimoto's family is pledging an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation (split over two years), bringing their total support to $700,000. He praises Zig's technical progress, community philosophy, and strict no-LLM contribution policy—even though, as a heavy AI user himself, he doesn't fully agree with it. He credits Zig with making Ghostty possible and defends the project's right to set unconventional boundaries amid recent debate sparked by Bun's Zig fork and Rust rewrite.
HN Discussion:
  • Praise for Mitchell's generosity and putting money where his mouth is
  • Appreciation for Zig's culture of allowing weirdness and unconventional boundaries
  • Agreement that Zig's no-LLM policy makes sense for language design even if users employ AI
  • ~Ghostty itself is a major contribution, possibly more valuable than the funding
  • Personal endorsement of Zig and Ghostty as enjoyable, well-built technical projects