Rust Commercial Network Launches to Bring Commercial Users of Rust Language Together

DOVER, DELAWARE, June 25, 2026 – The Rust Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the performance, safety, and sustainability of the Rust programming language, today announced the official launch of the Rust Commercial Network (RCN), where Rust users, businesses, and communities work together to make Rust easier to adopt and maintain.

The Rust Commercial Network is a community of industry professionals and Rust Project members sharing their experiences building, adopting, and running Rust in production. The network gives organizations that depend on Rust an opportunity to work together to solve complex problems, create initiatives, and build out reference architectures to make it easier for companies that want to adopt Rust into their infrastructure. An additional component of the RCN is the feedback loop from the commercial space to the Rust Project. The RCN provides the Rust Project insight into the real-world challenges industrial users face and opens communication and potential developer and funding pathways.

The RCN held its first public meeting on June 22; more background on the network’s formation is available here. The RCN is open to all commercial, industrial, and professional users of Rust and members of the Rust Project. Membership is free and open to companies, academic institutions, and organizations using or looking to adopt Rust. The network meets monthly, and members connect asynchronously through the commercial-network channel on the Rust Project’s synchronous chat instance on Zulip. Members of the RCN are expected to follow the Rust Foundation’s Code of Conduct.

“The first Rust Commercial Network meeting made clear just how strong the commercial community is behind Rust. I love working in open source because the magic is real – you get a bunch of people from different companies in the same room, and you see eyes lighting up, problems being discussed, and potential solutions being brainstormed. This founding group spans industries, company sizes, and roles within the ecosystem and Rust Project, and everyone came to the table ready to work. The commercial-network Zulip channel has lots of threads, people are already working asynchronously, and all of it is being done inside of the Rust project’s account. I’m absolutely excited and can’t wait to see how things evolve.”

– Lori Lorusso, Director of Outreach and RCN Advisory Member, Rust Foundation

Founding Members

The following organizations and projects (alphabetical order) have joined as founding members of the Rust Commercial Network, representing a broad cross-section of industry, open source, and the Rust Project community:

• Adorsys Ireland, Ltd.
• aleph0 s.r.o.
• Amazon Web Services
• Anori Tech
• Arm
• Aonyx
• Bytecode Alliance
• Canonical
• Defined Once
• Eden
• ExpressVPN
• Ferrous Systems
• Futurewei Technologies
• Google
• Globalized
• gRPC
• HCL Tech
• Hexcat
• JetBrains
• KDAB
• LaserData
• Mainmatter
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Processing Foundation
• PROMOTIC
• Ratatui Project
• RustNL
• Rust Project
• Safety-Critical Rust Consortium
• Tag1 Consulting
• Trifecta Tech Foundation
• Tweede Golf
• Wyeworks

Part of the mission of the RCN is to support the creation of topic-specific initiatives and working groups to focus on industry-specific challenges. An inaugural Network Services Working Group has already held its first meeting, with participation from companies including AWS, Microsoft, JetBrains, and F5. The network meets monthly, with working group meetings on a more frequent cadence. 

Additionally, part of the focus of the RCN is helping commercial members identify meaningful ways to support the Rust Project financially. The RCN serves as a pathway for members to learn about these opportunities via the Funding Directory and identify where their support, financial and development, can have the most impact. 

Organizations interested in joining the RCN can fill out the membership application on the RCN GitHub repository. The full charter, member definitions, and meeting policies are also available there. The Rust Foundation will share further updates on this as the network develops.

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About the Rust Foundation

The Rust Foundation is an independent nonprofit dedicated to the safety, security, sustainability, and health of the Rust Programming language and the people who use it. Through close partnerships with organizations passionate about Rust and the growing Rust Project and community, the Rust Foundation is helping forge a better open source future with Rust. Visit the Rust Foundation website to learn more. Follow the Rust Foundation on X (formerly known as Twitter) and on LinkedIn.