https://hitesh.in/tags/software/ Recent content in Software on Dr. Hitesh Sarda Hugo en-US Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hitesh.in/2026/paying-for-open-source-tools/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hitesh.in/2026/paying-for-open-source-tools/ <p>Mitchell Hashimoto just pledged $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation. That brings his personal total to $700,000 across two donations. If you haven&rsquo;t heard of Zig, it&rsquo;s a systems programming language, a modern alternative to C that has been gaining real traction over the last few years. Hashimoto is the founder of HashiCorp (Terraform, Vault, Consul) and has, since leaving that company, been building Ghostty, a terminal emulator written largely in Zig.</p>