3 years ago

While it might have, at one point, seemed like tech companies might go untouched by the effects of the COVID pandemic — or at least maintain the status quo — Mozilla came out earlier this month to say that “economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue” and that it would be restructuring the Mozilla Corporation, which included laying off 250 employees. Among those employees were a number of active members of the Rust project, originally created as a Mozilla Research project in 2010, and so this week Rust announced that it would be starting a foundation — something the core developers actually been actively considering since earlier this year and that was put on a more immediate timeline with Mozilla’s restructuring.

How does the Rust project sign a contract?’ has become a question we can no longer put off.” The foundation’s immediate tasks will be to take ownership of “the various trademarks and domain names associated with Rust, Cargo, and crates.io” with the goal of being up and running by the end of the year.

But we’re unsure what we would want to commit to it doing.