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The main drawback of the system is that, although Zig has a growing community, as of 2025, it remains a new language with areas for improvement in maturity, ecosystem and tooling.<ref name="logrocket">{{cite web |last=Chigozie |first=Oduah |title=Comparing Rust vs. Zig: Performance, Safety, and More |url=https://blog.logrocket.com/comparing-rust-vs-zig-performance-safety-more/ |website=LogRocket Blog |date=2024-06-04 |access-date=2024-07-16}}</ref> Also the learning curve for Zig can be steep, especially for those unfamiliar with low-level programming concepts.<ref name="logrocket"/> The availability of learning resources is limited for complex use cases, though this is gradually improving as interest and adoption increase.<ref name="logrocket"/> Other challenges mentioned by the reviewers are interoperability with other languages (extra effort to manage data marshaling and communication is required), as well as manual memory deallocation (disregarding proper memory management results directly in memory leaks).<ref name="logrocket"/>

The development is funded by the Zig Software Foundation (ZSF), a non-profit corporation with Andrew Kelley as president, which accepts donations and hires multiple full-time employees.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jakub Konka on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/kubkon/status/1377146321136537602 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410102319/https://twitter.com/kubkon/status/1377146321136537602 |archive-date=2022-04-10 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Announcing the Zig Software Foundation|url=https://ziglang.org/news/announcing-zig-software-foundation/|access-date=2021-05-28|website=Ziglang.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sponsor ZSF|url=https://ziglang.org/zsf/|access-date=2021-05-28|website=Ziglang.org}}</ref> Zig has very active contributor community, and is still in its early stages of development.<ref name="TNW1">{{cite web |url = https://thenextweb.com/news/zig-highest-paying-programming-language |title = Why Zig has become the highest-paying programming language |last =Kavanagh |first =Amanda |date = June 25, 20242023 |website=The Next Web |accessdate=Dec 15, 2024}}</ref> Despite this, a [[Stack Overflow]] survey in 2024 found that Zig software developers earn salaries of $103,000 USD per year on average, making it one of the best-paying programming languages.<ref name="VB1">{{cite web |url = https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/3-programming-languages-you-need-to-know-about/ |title = 3 programming languages you need to know about |last = McBride |first = Aoibhinn |date = July 16, 2024 |website=[[VentureBeat]] |accessdate = Dec 15, 2024}}</ref> However, only 0.83% reported they were proficient in Zig.<ref name="TNW1" />

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