Mitchell Hashimoto pledges $400k to the Zig Software Foundation

Category: Languages
Status: confirmed
Sources: mitchellh.com, HN
Summary: Mitchell Hashimoto announced on 2026-06-21 that he and his family are donating $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, structured as $200,000 per year over two years. It follows an initial 2024 donation and brings his cumulative pledged support to $700,000. He credits Zig with making Ghostty possible and praises the project's maintainership and quality focus.
Why it matters: Sustained individual funding at this scale is a direct input to the financial independence of a language project that underpins tools such as Ghostty.