This comment might be insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37545637

EDIT: added extra context

> You proposed a change to a repo you do not own

That’s not accurate, your assumption would imply that the bounty would require the work to be merged upstream or reviewed by the Zig team, which was not. The bounty just required to have a working prototype. We explicitly stated that merging upstream was not required

> Even in your new offer it's unclear whether people should make changes in zig (add support for your features in zig) or in wasmer (change the samples to work with the current zig compiler, or build libraries that work with zig) to support your features

That's a fair critique, I'll update the issue to make sure this is clear