- Mitchell Hashimoto is pledging an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing total support to $700,000.
- He respects Zig's technical progress, community culture (e.g., Contributor Poker, AI ban), and its approach to maintainership.
- He comments on recent debates about Bun's Zig fork and Rust rewrite, advocating for empathy and respect in discussions.
- Despite using AI heavily himself, he respects ZSF's differing policies and values Zig's independence and quality.
- He credits Zig for enabling his project Ghostty and encourages others to donate to ZSF.