The Rust Foundation, a coalition of Mozilla, Microsoft, AWS, Google & Huawei, will now be the home of the popular Rust programming language that began within Mozilla. Mozilla announced this on its official blog. Rust is an open-source programming language focused on safety, speed and concurrency. It started life as a side project in Mozilla Research.
AWS, Microsoft, Mozilla and others launch the Rust Foundation – TechCrunch
Rust — the programming language, not the survival game — now has a new home: the Rust Foundation. 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. 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.” Rust started out as a side project inside of Mozilla to develop an alternative to C/C++ .
Link: AWS, Microsoft, Mozilla and others launch the Rust Foundation – TechCrunch
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