Investing in the success, sustainability, and positive impact of Rust.

THE RUST FOUNDATION is an independent nonprofit committed to a safe, secure, and sustainable future powered by the Rust programming language.

We believe that investing in the global open-source community is essential to maintaining a healthy and performant technological ecosystem — for individuals and organizations alike.

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The Rust Foundation initiatives support the infrastructure, maintenance, and innovation, of the Rust programming language.

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The Rust ecosystem is complex, multifaceted, and growing every day. Explore how we help nurture the dynamic, open source community surrounding the Rust programming language.

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The Rust Foundation’s members and donors are key to our mission. Together, we help keep the Rust programming language running and expand its access to users and organizations across the world.

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Our members believe in the power of Rust.

  • Arm

    Joined November, 2021

    arm.com
    Arm is a leader in global semiconductor design and software. Their energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms have enabled advanced computing in more than 270 billion chips to date and are defining the future of computing. Collaboration is at the heart of all Arm does. With more than 1,000 technology partners, Arm provides a trusted foundation for a vast range of applications, from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer. They support thousands of open-source software projects, enabling more than 15 million developers who target Arm platforms to build, deploy, and manage their projects seamlessly, enabling top performance across the wide spectrum of hardware on Arm.
  • AWS

    AWS

    Joined January, 2021

    aws.amazon.com

    Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 102 Availability Zones within 32 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Canada, Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. In addition to serving as a founding Platinum Member of the Rust Foundation, AWS has made generous in-kind and financial donations in support of our Security Initiative.

  • Google

    Google

    Joined January, 2021

    google.com

    Google is a multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. Their mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

    Google joined the Rust Foundation as a founding Platinum Member following years of early exploration of and investment in Rust. They attribute a drop in the share of memory-safety vulnerabilities in Android to their recent Rust adoption. 

    Google has also lent its time and expertise to the ongoing development of the Security Initiative. We look forward to further collaborating with them as this work continues.

  • Huawei

    Huawei

    Joined January, 2021

    huawei.com/en

    Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. They have 207,000 employees and operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. Huawei is dedicated to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

    Huawei is also committed to the growth and prosperity of the Rust community. To demonstrate this commitment, they create development tools and deep code learning technology to help software engineering with Rust, and are continuously contributing to the improvement and expansion of Rust’s features, including those listed in the roadmaps on language, compiler and library teams.

  • Meta

    Meta

    Joined January, 2021

    opensource.fb.com

    When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented, virtual and mixed reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

     

    Meta is committed to the notion that open source not only provides great technology for developers, but also brings the best out in people. Rust is among Meta’s primary supported server-side languages.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft

    Joined January, 2021

    microsoft.com

    Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Their mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft joined the Rust Foundation as a founding Platinum Member following years of early investment in and exploration of Rust. They are collaborating with the Rust community to continue improving the Rust language, providing tooling and library support, creating learning resources, and more.

  • OpenAI

    Joined June, 2026

    openai.com

    OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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Ernest Kissiedu speaking at Rust Global
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