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Post-Mozilla Rust: The Future of the Rust Language
With Mozilla shrinking in total employees, what is going to happen with Rust?
Recently Mozilla announced and enacted a sizeable number of layoffs, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Many within the Rust community at large began to worry about the future of the beloved Rust programming language.
There are over 5000 open issues on GitHub, the Rust-based Servo team is no more, and some of the internal Mozilla contributors to Rust have lost their jobs!
As with any major news, things that can affect a programmer's happiness are always going to cause a stir online. But guess what?
Rust is going to be okay! 🧡
And here’s why:
Microsoft Loves Rust
This one is far from a surprise, considering how vocal Microsoft is about their relationship with Rust. Even within this very article, you will hear about Krustlet and npm, both of which are overseen by Microsoft Engineering.
Microsoft is getting tired of their once favored C++ and C code:
We can’t really do much more than we…
