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Published February 10, 2021, 8:09 AM
Started as a personal project by Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare in 2006, Rust has grown to one of the most-loved programming languages of recent times with its “hack without fear” slogan. Rust is described as a blazingly fast and memory-efficient systems programming language. With no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.
The non-profit organization Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, began sponsorship of the Rust project in 2009 and was formally announced to the general public the year after. But much more than a programming language and a community, Rust also represents a new, radical, way to collaborate on open source projects.
The Rust programming language, which has been gaining traction lately as a mechanism for building safe, high-performance, system-level software, is now under the jurisdiction of the Rust Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization chartered to steward the language and the ecosystem around it.
In a bulletin published February 8, the Rust project is heralding the arrangement as the arrival of Rust as an enterprise-grade, production-ready technology. Key to the organization is a supporting a set of maintainers to govern and develop the project.
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The arrangement includes a financial commitment from a number of global companies and board of directors representatives from longtime Rust sponsor Mozilla, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei. Five directors have been drawn from project leadership, with two representing the Rust Core Team and three from project areas including reliability, quality, and collaboration.