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serokell.ioThe Hidden Challenges of Rust Infrastructure: Interview with Marco IeniMarco Ieni of the Rust Foundation discusses Rust infrastructure, CI costs, running untrusted code, release-plz, and maintaining a growing open-source ecosystem.

Check out this interview with Rust Foundation and Rust programming language Infrastructure Team Lead Marco Ieni and learn more about how the team keeps the lights on and manage the many responsibilities of maintaining the behind the scenes work of Rust. 🦀 serokell.io/blog/the-hid...

The Rust Foundation is at EuroRust! We're chatting about the Rust Commercial Network, hanging out with members of the Rust project, and talking Rust with the awesome attendees.

Our Rust Foundation Board has had some changes. Please welcome newly elected Project Directors Jana Dönszelmann and Nia Deckers and new Platinum Member representative Jess Wass rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

youtube.comJetBrains | Rust Foundation AI Livestream Series - OpenAI: Performance, Safety & ScaleYouTube video by Rust Foundation

October 8 - JetBrains + Rust Foundation livestream hosted by Orhun Parmaksız and featuring a 🦀 with many 🎩s, OpenAI software engineer, maintainer of cargo-semver-checks, & Rust Foundation board member Predrag Gruevski! It is going to be 🔥 Showtime: 16:00 UTC www.youtube.com/live/bdTnK7H...

rustfoundation.orgWelcoming the Josh Project to the Rust Innovation Lab - The Rust FoundationThe Rust Innovation Lab (RIL), housed under the Rust Foundation, is pleased to announce the arrival of its newest board-approved project, Josh ("Just One Single History"): a Rust-based platform for…

Please join us in welcoming Josh (“Just One Single History”) to the Rust Innovation Lab! Learn more: rustfoundation.org/media/welcom...

info.jetbrains.comLive Webinar - Smarter Coding Agents for Rust with SymposiumDiscover how Rust and AI can make each other better and how Symposium gives coding agents the crate-aware skills, tools and workflows they need to write more reliable Rust.

Live in 1 hour! @nikomatsakis.com, Jack Huey and @orhun.dev will explore making AI coding agents smarter at Rust, plus a look at Symposium. 🦀 Join us and @jetbrains.com: info.jetbrains.com/rustrover-li...

@nikomatsakis.com, Jack Huey and @orhun.dev go live tomorrow at 9am PDT to talk about coding agents that write Rust the compiler actually likes, and what Symposium brings to the table. Grab your spot on this livestream hosted by us + @jetbrains.com: info.jetbrains.com/rustrover-li...

rustfoundation.orgMeet Arlo Siemsen: Distribution Engineer for the Rust Supply Chain - The Rust FoundationSince 2022, the Rust Foundation has run a Security Initiative aimed at the parts of the Rust ecosystem that no individual maintainer can reasonably be expected to cover alone: threat modeling for crat...

Join Symposium Co-Creators @nikomatsakis.com & Jack Huey and @orhun.dev of @jetbrains.com on Oct 1 to talk about coding agents that write reliable, idiomatic Rust! Register: info.jetbrains.com/rustrover-li... Read more: rustfoundation.org/event/livest...

Meet new Distribution Engineer, Arlo Siemsen 🦀 With funding from Alpha-Omega, Arlo will help land TUF-based signing, mirroring, and verification in support of the Rust Project mirroring project goal. rustfoundation.org/media/meet-a... #rustlang #supplychainsecurity

We're excited to welcome four new members to the Rust Foundation: Silver Members: @codspeed.io, Haevek, and Perplexity Associate Member: @stewardshiplab.org Thanks to these orgs for investing in the health and stewardship of #rustlang! rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

luma.comC-to-Rust Migrations – AMA with Jonas Kruckenberg and Marco Otte-Witte · LumaSecuring and modernizing software is a top priority today. Tech debt and memory-safety bugs remain the largest sources of vulnerabilities, which is why teams…

Rust Foundation Trusted Training Provider @mainmatter.com is hosting an AMA on migrating C/C++ to idionmatic #rustlang on October 1! Don't miss it: luma.com/m2gplobz

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On Oct 1, we're hosting a free AMA on migrating C/C++ to idiomatic Rust. Our @jonaskruckenberg.de, author of the C-to-Rust migration book, and @marcoow.bsky.social will answer your questions, drawing on our experience running large-scale C-to-Rust migrations. Registration link below. #rustlang

rustfoundation.orgAnnouncing a Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo team - The Rust FoundationThis blog post has been cross-posted with permission from its original source: blog.rust-lang.org By Jakub Beránek on behalf of the Rust Project Funding team At the end of August, we announced our…

22 Sept

Please welcome Scott Schafer as the new full-time Maintainer in Residence for the Cargo team! 🦀 📦 This role is funded through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, with added support from the Leadership Council + AWS. Read more: rustfoundation.org/media/announ...

11 Sept

This past Weds at #rustconf, Joe Birr-Pixton and Daniel McCarney shared an update on the Rustls project 10 years in! Don't miss this write-up from Joe that captures some of what they covered onstage. Congrats on such a long run of this important project, Rustls! rustfoundation.org/media/guest-...

Thank you to Felipe Monteiro for sharing an update on the Rust Standard Library Verification Contest from AWS and the Rust Foundation at #rustconf earlier this morning! Learn more and get involved: lnkd.in/gjkfDJ8C github.com/model-checki...

goals.rust-lang.orgLooking to fund? - Rust Project Goals

Thanks to Nicholas Matsakis for sharing this helpful overview of @rust-lang.org Goals and funding them. Rust Project Goals looking for funding: goals.rust-lang.org/2026/funding... Overview of #rustlang Goals: goals.rust-lang.org

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Now onstage at #rustconf: a welcome update from Nicholas Matsakis on Rust Project Goals and how it pairs with funding. Learn more about what he's sharing right now in Montréal: rustconf2026.sched.com/event/2KI4F/... Explore Rust Project Goals further: goals.rust-lang.org #rustlang

More news from the RustConf stage! Rust Foundation Silver Member Peeriot has just announced the developer preview of Myrmic: an open, Rust- based runtime for building stateful software for machines, devices, and distributed physical systems. Learn more : rustfoundation.org/media/guest-...

🧵 Big onstage announcements from @microsoft.com at @rustconf.com: - Rust is now a tier-1 language for internal development at Microsoft - rustc_codegen_utc: a prod-ready compiler backend that brings Rust onto the same Windows-native code generation platform as MSVC 🎉

Read more about these exciting #rustlang announcements in this guest blog from @ciuravictor.bsky.social, Technical Lead for Rust Program @microsoft.com: rustfoundation.org/media/guest-...

developer.nvidia.comIntroducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels | NVIDIA Technical BlogIn September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA…

9 Sept

NVIDIA, our newest Platinum Member, launched CUDA Rust today. You can now write GPU kernels in Rust and compile them straight to PTX. Learn more on their blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...

9 Sept

Just announced onstage at @rustconf.com: NVIDIA and @solana.com are the newest Platinum members of the Rust Foundation 🦀 Learn more about why each org joined and what it helps us do for Rust: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

9 Sept

Rebecca Rumbul is onstage at #rustconf2026 with a stack of announcements, and we're proud to host an event that's already 10 years old. Of everything she covered, the one closest to our hearts: maintainers 🧡 Learn more about the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund here: github.com/sponsors/rus...

5 Sept

Our team has begun setting up for #rustconf 🎉 Workshops, early badge retrieval, and the evening Career Crawl (sponsored by Solana) kick off on Tuesday. Register while you can (virtual starts at $0): bit.ly/4gWyfWK What part of the week are you most excited for (besides the stickers)?

4 Sept

New from the Rust/C++ Interop Initiative: a tool support matrix comparing Crubit, cxx, and Zngur across 25+ interop use cases, an overloading experiment you can try, and more! Read Teor's update here: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-c...

2 Sept

Rust Foundation Trusted Training (RFTT) is our accreditation for Rust training providers who meet our standard for curriculum, instructors, and learner experience. RFTT spotlight: Doulos, offering 35 years of engineering education, 3+ years of Rust courses. rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

oxidar.org(Why|Who|Where) Rust at DebConf 26A talk about why Rust is good for systems development, who is using it in production, and how to get involved with the community.

2 Sept

Congrats to Nicolás Antinori and Hernán G. Gonzalez of Oxidar on presenting "(Why|Who|Where) Rust" at DebConf 26. This is first for Oxidar presenters, and a great introduction of Rust to the Debian community 🦀 Slides + recording: oxidar.org/en/why-who-w...

rustfoundation.orgHow the Rust Standard Library Verification Contest Scaled Past Manual Proof EngineeringThis article was written with support from Rahul Kumar (Senior Applied Scientist Manager, AWS) & Felipe Monteiro (Senior Applied Scientist, AWS) When the Rust Foundation and AWS launched the…

1 Sept

Update on AWS' contest to formally verify Rust's std library: Manual proofs got to 725 functions; a new automated tool then verified nearly 12,000! More at RustConf 2026 on Sept 10. In the meantime, don't miss this guest blog from Sr. Applied Scientists @ AWS: rustfoundation.org/media/how-th...

27 Aug

Welcoming Jess Izen as our new Engineer in Residence! For the next year she'll work with our team (while staying at AWS) on crates.io security and support for #rustlang community libraries, starting with malicious crate detection for new publishes! 🦀 Learn more: rustfoundation.org/media/welcom...

27 Aug

We're live in 5 minutes! 🎥 Join @orhun.dev and Stephen Korzeniewski (Rig, Playgrounds) now for "Building AI applications in Rust". This is the first session in our new livestream series with @jetbrains.com 👉️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdw...

rustfoundation.orgRust Project and Rust Foundation Announce First Maintainers in ResidenceNew program directs $350,000 toward maintainers supporting critical Rust infrastructure DOVER, Delaware, USA – August 26, 2026 – The Rust Project and Rust Foundation today announced the inaugural coho...

26 Aug

Announcing the 1st cohort of Rust Maintainers in Residence! Thanks to contributions from Google, AWS, & OpenAI, the Rust Foundation and Rust Project have raised $350K to fund 6 contributors on Rustup, Clippy, compiler, stdlib, & rustdoc 🦀 Read announcement: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-p...

Read this blog from Rust Foundation Director of Outreach, @lorilorusso.bsky.social, to learn more about the first cohort of Rust Maintainers in Residence and find words from the sponsors and Rust Project Funding Team: rustfoundation.org/media/congra...

rustfoundation.orgCongratulations to the First Round of Rust Project Maintainers in ResidenceWe are pleased to join in the celebration of the inaugural cohort of the Rust Maintainers in Residence (MiR) program, made possible through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Cheers to MiRs ...

blog.rust-lang.orgAnnouncing our first Maintainers in Residence | Rust BlogEmpowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

26 Aug

Cheers to #rustlang Maintainers in Residence, Gen Li, Alejandra González, Chris Denton, León Liehr, and Maintainer Grantees Jonas Böttiger and Jason Newcomb 🎉 Individual contributors can support the Fund through the Rust Foundation’s GitHub Sponsors program: github.com/sponsors/rus... 🧡

Head over to the @rust-lang.org project blog for a deeper dive announcement on this Rust maintenance funding news, including the selection methodology and more details on this amazing initial cohort of Rust Maintainers in Residence: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/26/a... #rustlang

26 Aug

Tomorrow! The Rust Foundation & @jetbrains.com livestream series kicks off with @orhun.dev and Stephen Korzeniewski talking real about Rust+AI workflows. 📅 Thurs, Aug 27 @ 16:00 UTC 👀 Learn more: rustfoundation.org/media/jetbra... 🏷️ Bookmark the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdw...

rustfoundation.orgJetBrains Partners with the Rust Foundation for an AI Livestream SeriesA little over a month ago we saw this tweet from Vitaly, who is the Head of Rust Ecosystem at JetBrains. JetBrains is one of our members, developer of RustRover, their dedicated IDE for Rust…

25 Aug

Proud to team up w/ @jetbrains.com for livestreams centered around Rust & AI + how the two are coming together in development. 🦀 Session 1: @orhun.dev talks agents, tooling, & real #rustlang+AI workflows w/ Stephen Korzeniewski. 📅 Aug 27 @ 16:00 UTC Info: rustfoundation.org/media/jetbra...

rustfoundation.orgBuilt with Rust: Processing FoundationHow Processing Foundation's Rust R&D is changing what's possible in the browser. Built With Rust is a new series from the Rust Foundation, spotlighting how Rust Commercial Network member…

21 Aug

New "Built With Rust" story on our blog! 🦀 Processing Foundation replaced their aging OpenGL renderer w/ a shared Rust core (built on Bevy) that compiles to WASM for the browser, links via FFI, or runs natively with Python support. Their Rust case study: rustfoundation.org/media/built-...

rustfoundation.orgExperimenting with Function Overloading in Rust: Why It MattersThe Rust/C++ Interop Initiative — a Rust Foundation effort aimed at making Rust and C++ work together more smoothly — is the driving force behind the "function overloading experiment" described in…

19 Aug

Calling overloaded C++ functions from Rust today means boilerplate, traits, or uniquely-named functions for every overload. "Splat," a new experiment from Teor of the Rust/C++ Interop Initiative, is a 1st step toward making that easier. Learn more: rustfoundation.org/media/experi...

19 Aug

Thanks to Google for making this work possible and to the Rust Project for their close collaboration!

eurorust.euEuroRust 2026, Barcelona & onlineEuroRust 2026 is a conference for the European Rust community, held in Barcelona and online from October 14 to 17, 2026.

18 Aug

Rust Foundation Trusted Training Provider @mainmatter.com is once again presenting @eurorust.eu this October! Register now and be sure to check our their special #rustlang training day on Oct 14: eurorust.eu

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EuroRust is all about learning! 🦀 On Oct 14, the day before the conference, join us for a full day of hands-on Rust training: embedded systems, C to Rust migration, computer vision with real vehicles, and more. Register for your workshop, and don't forget to get a conference ticket! 👇 eurorust.eu

rustfoundation.orgJune 2026 Project Director Update - The Rust FoundationContributed by Project Directors Carol Nichols and David Wood | View on the Inside Rust blog This post covers the Rust Foundation board meeting that took place on June 9, 2026. Find the full June…

17 Aug

Rust Foundation Project Directors Carol Nichols and David Wood are back with a recap of our June board meeting. We're grateful to them for providing this regular glimpse into our board-level discussions for the community! rustfoundation.org/media/june-2...

rustfoundation.orgRust Foundation Trusted Training Spotlight: WyliodrinWyliodrin, an embedded Rust specialist based in Romania and France, brings a distinctive credential to its training: the team is also a core contributor to TockOS, one of the projects it teaches. In…

14 Aug

Next up in our Rust Foundation Trusted Training Provider series: Wyliodrin! An embedded Rust specialist based in Romania and France, they are also a core contributor to TockOS, one of the projects it teaches. More about what sets their #rustlang training apart: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

13 Aug

ExpressVPN's rewrite of their Lightway VPN protocol shows what a careful Rust migration involves: unsafe denied by default, wolfSSL kept for crypto, Tokio for concurrency, +2 independent audits, & 4x throughput on iOS. Read their "Built With Rust" story: rustfoundation.org/media/built-...

rustfoundation.orgRust Team Health Summit: September 8 in MontréalA day of discussions about Rust leadership, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and more.

7 Aug

We are excited to support the Rust Team Health Summit on Sept 8 in Montréal! Team leads across Rust will spend the day talking leadership, mentoring & collaboration, and resources for current and future Rustaceans. Learn more: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-t...

7 Aug

Ten years of #rustconf? We could not be more excited to host this one. 🦀🎉 Sept 8-11, Montréal + online. A decade of talks, workshops, and hallway chats we still think about years later. Employer-paid rate ends Aug 10. Register today for the best rate. bit.ly/4fVtnQ5 #rustconf26

6 Aug

New interview from RustWeek 2026 (@rustnl.bsky.social) via the #rustlang Content Team: Rust-C++ interop with Teor, C++ Interop Engineer at the Rust Foundation. Highlights: the Tor project's accidental full rewrite, problem space mapping, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1U9...

blog.rust-lang.orgFunding team progress update — July 2026 | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!

4 Aug

Rust Project Funding Team update: $350K raised so far for the Maintainer in Residence program. 45 people + 3 teams looking for funding support. First focus: rustup, rustfmt, clippy, rustdoc, libs, cargo, mods. Shortlist announcement expected end of August! 🦀 blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

mainmatter.comRust Training - MainmatterWe train teams to succeed with Rust – covering a wide range from basics to advanced topics, onsite or remote.

3 Aug

Looking for hands-on #rustlang training? Don't miss these upcoming offerings from Rust Foundation Trusted Training Provider @mainmatter.com!

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We’ve added new Rust workshop dates in Sep and Nov. Hands-on training covering real use-cases, from Rust basics to C-to-Rust migrations and more, bookable for individuals and teams. We're a @rustfoundation.org Trusted Training provider. Save your spot 👇️ mainmatter.com/training/rust/ #rustlang

30 July

2 months later & the Rust Commercial Network RCN) is already 100+ individuals &~50 companies strong 🦀 Together, we're tackling maintainer funding, LTS toolchains, safety-critical Rust, & more! Read the update from our Dir of Outreach, @lorilorusso.bsky.social: rustfoundation.org/media/update...

youtube.comWhy Canonical Is Betting on Rust for Ubuntu🎟️ REGISTER FOR RUSTCONF 2026: https://rustconf.com/register Use the code RUST26 for 10% off eligible tickets. The discount is available to the first 20 people who use the code. ALL THE LINKS…

28 July

Thanks to Francesco Ciulla for hosting this convo w/ our Exec Director & CEO, Rebecca Rumbul & Canonical's VP of Engineering, Jon Seager! They discuss why Canonical decided to become a Rust Foundation Gold Member, what “oxidizing Ubuntu” actually means, & more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-1...