![]() The Rust Foundation recently announced its Community Grants Program 2022, which has a budget of $625,000. The plan is to give selected Rust maintainers a grant of $12,000 each. “We want to reward people who are already here and who are already doing good work,” she said, “but we want to ensure that Rust is sustainable and that requires a pipeline of people coming through, being able to learn.” In an AMA (Ask Me Anything) video last month, Rust Foundation Executive Director Rebecca Rumbul said that the grants won’t just be for current maintainers, but to encourage new people to join the project too. ![]() To find out more about Rust’s growth - and why it is increasingly being preferred over traditional programming languages like C and C++ - I conducted an email interview with Rumbul. Rust Foundation Executive Director Rebecca Rumbul What’s driving this rapid adoption? Is it coming at the expense of older programming languages, like C/C++? TNS: SlashData says that Rust is “the fastest growing language community”. Rumbul: I think there are a number of factors in the growth - the language itself is interesting, challenging and satisfying to build in. The security and memory safety enables people to create with a lot of confidence. The maintainer and contributor community are inclusive and supportive, and Rust is also a great choice for developers looking to enhance their professional prospects, as demand for Rust developers continues to increase. I’m not sure yet that this growth is at the expense of other languages - we find that Rust users are typically people who are already very familiar with languages such as C++. I was interested in this comment in the SlashData report: “it is mostly used in IoT software projects but also in AR/VR development, most commonly for implementing the low-level core logic of AR/VR applications.” I’ve been fascinated by the rise of 3D web apps (aka metaverse ) this year - why is Rust better than other options for the core logic in these kinds of apps?Ī complete AR/VR application can be written in multiple languages. The new Rust board will feature five board directors from the five founding members, as well as five directors from project leadership.For example, you may use C# and Unity to implement the graphics. 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. Today, Rust is the most-loved language among developers. 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. ![]() Rust started as a side project inside of Mozilla to develop an alternative to C/C++. This budget will allow the project to “develop services, programs, and events that will support the Rust project maintainers in building the best possible Rust.” AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla banded together to launch this new foundation today and put a two-year commitment to a million-dollar budget behind it. ![]() Rust - the programming language, not the survival game - now has a new home: the Rust Foundation. ![]()
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