Rust Foundation

History

2021: Start of the organization for development of the Rust programming language

At the beginning of February, 2021 Google, Microsoft, AWS, Huawei, Mozilla started Rust Foundation non-profit organization. She will be responsible for support of an ecosystem and developers of a programming language Rust and also for sponsoring of the project.

Will join ten people the board of Rust Foundation, on one representative from each founder company and also five people from Rust project board. The budget for the next two years of work of fund is already created, it will make $1 million. These funds will be allocated for development of the services, programs and also organization of events focused on support of the main meynteyner of Rust.

Mozilla transferred all trademarks and assets of infrastructure, including the register of packets on crates.io, in Rust Foundation. We are grateful Mozilla, the company cultivated Rust as the research project to release of the first stable release in 2015. And now we act as completely independent organization, - the board member of Rust Foundation Bobbie Halle noted.

Huawei, Mozilla, Amazon, Google and Microsoft created the organization for development of the Rust programming language

All companies which became founders of Rust Foundation, are interested in Rust and use language for the purposes.

Google noted that Rust proved the efficiency in ensuring additional level of protection in many environments, including in browsers, games, libraries therefore the company is ready to invest in the project on the basis of Rust which is focused on increase in security of the Apache Web server.

Microsoft developers use Rust for rewriting of some main API Windows. The Amazon Web Services command started Linux- a distribution kit Bottlerocket which tools are created mainly using Rust.

AWS noted:

We use Rust for such services as Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon CloudFront and others. The reason for which AWS developers select Rust is that it allows them much quicker and with smaller costs to create the services conforming to the high quality standards and security.[1][2]

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