The Rust programming language just took a huge step forwards

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Rust only reached version 1.0 in 2015, so its a relatively young language compared to the likes of Python, Java and JavaScript. The foundation creates a vehicle to accept financing from organizations beyond Mozilla, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Establishing a foundation will make official what has been true in practice for a long time: that Rust is an independent project," Matsakis wrote recently. "We have also heard a few times from companies, large and small, who would like to support Rust financially, but right now there is no clear way to do that. As part of the new arrangement, Mozilla transferred all trademark and infrastructure assets to the Rust Foundation, including the crates.io package registry.

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