rust programming language new home foundation

Designed by Mozilla Research's Graydon Hore, with contributions from the likes of JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, Rust became the core language for some of the fundamental features of the Firefox browser and its Gecko engine, as well as Mozilla's Servo engine. The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project. Today, Rust is the most-loved language among developers.

But with Mozilla's layoffs in recent months, many on the Rust team lost jobs and the future of the language became unclear without a main sponsor, though the project itself has thousands of contributors and a lot of corporate users, so the language itself wasn't going anywhere.Ī large open-source project often needs some kind of guidance, which the new foundation will provide - and it takes a legal entity to manage various aspects of the community, including the trademark, for example.

The new Rust board will feature five board directors from the five founding members, as well as five directors from project leadership.

Rust programming language new home foundation