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Post-Mozilla Rust: The Future of the Rust Language

Cameron Manavian
6 min readAug 19, 2020

With Mozilla shrinking in total employees, what is going to happen with Rust?

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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! 🧡

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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…

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Cameron Manavian
Cameron Manavian

Written by Cameron Manavian

Father, Husband, Engineer, CTO, 15+ yrs of software engineering — cameronmanavian.com

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"Memory Safe
Easy to compile to a standalone and easily deployable binary
Fast enough to consistently outperform JavaScript"
It's all about the Go too you know ;)

I don’t love Rust! I am staying up to date with what the enemy is doing 😜
On a more serious note I like many of the ideas of Rust but I don’t really think it is my kind of language. But if people use Rust instead of C++ then that can only be a good…

Did you know that Google is building an operating system called Fuschia?

I do it all the time, misspell Fuchsia, it ch before Sia.