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Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

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The Zig Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded in 2020 by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig, with the goal of supporting the development of the language. Currently, the ZSF is able to offer paid work at competitive rates to a small number of core contributors. We hope to be able to extend this offer to more core contributors in the future.
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A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 84-5105214

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In 2024, ZSF spent 92% of its income directly paying contributors for their work. User activity continues to skyrocket. We have extremely talented new core Zig team members who want to renew their contracts, and some who want to start getting paid for the first time. Our income comes from a diverse set of parties, preventing any one from having undue influence on the project. Your donations help to increase and maintain that diversity. We are looking to increase recurring donations to ZSF in order to satisfy the needs of our new users. More details: https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/
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In 2024, ZSF spent 92% of its income directly paying contributors for their work. User activity continues to skyrocket. We have extremely talented new core Zig team members who want to renew their contracts, and some who want to start getting paid for the first time. Our income comes from a diverse set of parties, preventing any one from having undue influence on the project. Your donations help to increase and maintain that diversity. We are looking to increase recurring donations to ZSF in order to satisfy the needs of our new users. More details: https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/
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    Pete Dietl

    I love the grassroots approach of this project and thus want to support it. I am a firmware developer who primarily uses C, but who yearns

  • Ricardo Santos Dalla Valle

    I made a pet project library in Zig and when I started timing it against other consolidated libraries in other languages, even against C, I noticed Zig was producing better assembly on most cases, making my library run faster than C on spec...

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    Nas Denkov

    Fantastic language that has revived and reimagined my love for programming. Thank you.

  • Kazuhiro Kondo

    Zig is crucial for bridging legacy and modern systems, paving the way for modernized software development. Supporting Zig's growth is key to advancing this important transition.

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