Rust Foundation

There's, I believe the Eclipse Foundation is doing something like this.

The Rust Foundation has, um, oh, I forget what they just...

They just, they just released something where they're having, they're basically paying, like, folks to work on, you know, fundamental Rust problems.

'Cause, like, one of the challenges we see in open source, and this is, I guess, true of society, is there's just, like, fundamental things we have to work on, like paving roads, that is not exciting, right? There's no Roadcon.

After several decades trying out prescriptivism, they prefer descriptivism and not bundling gender metadata with third-person pronouns, but they will not mind at all if you call them, him, or even her.

They are proud alumnus of the University of Michigan, Etsy, Mozilla, and the Rust Foundation, working at every level of the tech stack from operating systems to web applications.

John brought their experience in Rust and standards developments to bear as the implementer of AVIF support in Firefox and the erstwhile lead for the Rust Foundation's C++ interoperability initiative.

As a result, John and the Rust Foundation joined WG21.

In less than a year of membership, John, along with Timur Dumler, which, yes, is a CBP cast host emeritus, and five other committee members, authored P3874, Should C++ Be a Memory-Safe Language, which received overwhelming consensus from EWG, and the Croydon meeting this past March.

In their spare time, John enjoys the vibrant Seattle film community being a philosophy of language delinquent.

But these are all things that people are already working on.

They're already useful.

And it's all very organic.

In the background, we now have the Rust Foundation, which is an organization.

They can sign checks and they help with a lot of the funding and kind of support in the background.

But this idea of big distributed project, people in different time zones, sort of code reviewing each other's work and working very collaboratively, that's always where Rust has been used traditionally.

Yes.

And special guests, my friend, old chef colleague, principal engineer at Microsoft, lead architect for Azure Incubations and chair of the Rust Foundation, Nell Shamrell-Harrington.

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