Arm joins the Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization that supports the Rust project. Recently Arm joined the Rust Foundation as a silver member. Arm’s participation will greatly promote the development of the Rust programming language.
The Rust Foundation was jointly established by AWS, Google, Mozilla, Huawei, and Microsoft earlier this year. In addition to these founding members, the current members of the Rust Foundation include Meta (formerly Facebook), Activision, Toyota, Clever Cloud, Ferrous Systems, Futurewei, and Open Source Security, etc. The addition of Arm also makes the members of the Rust Foundation more diverse.
The adoption of the Rust programming language by major companies and projects has made the Rust developer community one of the fastest-growing communities in the past year and has generated an extremely high demand for the work of engineers who maintain and contribute to the Rust open source project and ecology.
“Software is increasingly important in realizing the full potential of computing today,” said Andrew Wafaa, Senior Director of Software Communities, Arm. “The Rust programming language is delivering on the performance, reliability, and efficiency software principles needed for the next era of computing, and as a new member of the Rust Foundation, Arm is committed to contributing to the growth and development of the Rust programming language alongside other leaders in the industry.”
“The Rust programming language makes it possible for developers to build secure and sustainable software,” said Rust Foundation Chairwoman Shane Miller, who also leads the Rust team at Amazon Web Services. “The Rust Foundation creates a platform for companies benefiting from the value of Rust to contribute to maintainer health and wealth, ecosystem completeness and stability, and growing the developer community.”
