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A masterclass in clear writing and transparency. I wish all nonprofits were like this.
I know literally nothing about business accounting or business taxes. Why does the expenses include both the employee's compensation and also their taxes? Do businesses claim their employees taxes as expenses?

Very cool to see such a detailed report about finances.

> CI & Website $14,986.73

What a waste of money, seriously

What’s the role of LLM coding on Zig?
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.

Wow, paying himself $150k after tax from donations! That's wildly more successful than I would have guessed. (Not saying it's undeserved.)

> we need more recurring donations

Damn... really? More than $170k/year from Github Sponsors? That's got to be the most successful Github Sponsor income ever right?

Reading this, it feels like putting my hand in acid :)

I’m sure there are many people that would happily donate more so he can make more for his work. Which I had the budget to donate atm

"Even with a 13% bigger budget, we still managed to spend 92% of our money in 2024 paying contributors for their time."

The Zig Foundation model of paying contributors is really interesting. I don't think I've seen it done on this scale before, but hope it takes off.

Nice breakdown but renders awfully on Safari Mobile/iOS
It's kinda sad the state of things where startups with only buzzwords and slop (I'm looking at you horoscope AI app) end up raising more money than actual tech projects that will, actually, improve infrastructure and innovation.