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.
Our members believe in the power of Rust.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1Password has been protecting individuals, families, and businesses for the last 15 years. Their password manager keeps secrets safe, accessible, and easy to use no matter what devices or operating systems users rely on. Besides passwords, 1Password protects payment information, private notes, medical records, business secrets, and over 20 other kinds of data. They are always working to bridge the gap between security and convenience so anyone can protect their data and take charge of their online safety.
Today, over 63% of the 1Password core is using Rust. Rust powers the latest versions of client apps and browser extensions, provides the fundamental logic that underpins everything from encryption to sync, ensuring a consistent, performant experience no matter what combination of operating system and device you are using.
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Accelerant
Joined June, 2024
Accelerant is a service provider known for its accessible, informative and supportive approach. They have partnered with many teams, from stealth startups to the world’s largest tech companies. They are in business to benefit billions of people by accelerating the move to stable, secure and energy efficient software.
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For over 25 years, AdaCore has been committed to supporting the needs of safety- and mission-critical industries with high integrity software development tools and services. AdaCore initially focused on Ada, a state-of-the-art programming language designed specifically for developing long-lived, safety-critical, certified software. Over the years, this focus has extended beyond the Ada language to its formally verifiable SPARK subset, C and C++, and Simulink® and Stateflow® models. Now, AdaCore is sharing its expertise in safety-certified toolchains with the Rust safety community.
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adorsys
IT and Information Architects for the “What’s Next”adorsys is a leading boutique group of IT architects, driven by an unmatched commitment to being the best sparring partner for management and creating the most inspiring and secure IT solutions in highly-regulated environments. -
AppFlowy is an AI-powered secure workspace for wikis and projects where you achieve more without losing control of your data. It is built with Rust.
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Arm is 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.
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Automata is a modular attestation layer that establishes trust in computing machines by verifying their authenticity on-chain. TEE Coprocessors are one of the biggest unlocks for open innovation in EigenLayer’s AVS landscape. TEE AVS help rollups to achieve an Ethereum-aligned future – one that is open, modular, and verifiable.
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Devolutions is a global software company that helps organizations bridge the gap between IT and Security with highly secured password, remote connection, and privileged access management solutions for maximizing productivity and security. Since 2010, Devolutions has been a leading security partner with over 800,000 users across 140 countries.
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Dropbox is a place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, they are on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has offices around the world.
Dropbox is also an active participant in the open source community. They have open sourced many of their own projects and are using open source software in a variety of ways across their products.
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Embecosm was founded in April 2008. Their mission is to deliver the best compiler technology in the world. Embecosm believes that cooperating with their customer’s and the open source community we will achieve this goal. In 2018, Embecosm branched out into providing embedded operating system services.
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Ferrous Systems provides consulting and made-to-measure solutions based on their team’s expertise in Rust programming.
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The Filecoin Foundation is an independent organization that facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds critical development projects, supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem, & advocates for Filecoin and the decentralized web.
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Futurewei Technologies is dedicated to pursuing openness in Research & Development by embracing an Open Innovation Model. For more than two decades, Futurewei has maintained an ongoing, in-depth collaboration with forward-thinking companies and organizations. To that end, our experts have been involved in standards activities and open-source development and are committed to building the broader ecosystem of global contributors.
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Helsing is a pan-European, multi-domestic defense company with national entities in Germany, the UK, and France. They believe that software, in particular artificial intelligence, will be the key to protecting democracy. Their teams design technology products that transform the operational capabilities of both new and existing defense platforms, to deliver faster and more accurate decision-making at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. Approximately 50% of Helsing’s code is Rust-native and the other half is slowly but surely getting replaced with Rust.
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HighTec EDV-Systeme GmbH is the world’s largest commercial provider of compilers using innovative open source technologies with ISO 26262 ASIL D certified tools for embedded software development.
HighTec also offers a safety-certified multicore real-time operating system (RTOS) called PXROS-HR, and a wide range of design-in services.
HighTec’s flagship product is the proven ASIL D qualified C/C++ multiarchitecture compiler for leading multicore microcontrollers in the automotive and industrial sectors such as Arm®, TriCore™/AURIX™ families, Power Architecture (PowerPC), GTM and Renesas architectures. The latest addition to HighTec’s offering is the first LLVM-based Rust compiler for Infineon AURIX TC3x and TC4x which leverages the benefits of Rust and those MCUs for automotive and industrial applications.
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JetBrains is a global software company specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams. It’s headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with 13 offices globally. JetBrains employs more than 2,200 people and has grown organically, with no external funding. Its product catalog covers every stage of the software development cycle as well as major technologies, programming languages, and educational processes.
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The KDAB Group is a globally recognized provider for software consulting, development and training, specializing in embedded devices and complex cross-platform desktop applications. In addition to being leading experts in Qt, C++ and 3D technologies for over two decades, KDAB provides deep expertise across the stack, including Linux, Rust and modern UI frameworks. On the desktop, their customers typically deal with large amounts of complicated data from various sources like seismic sensors, high-end microscopes, medical imaging, industrial SCADA systems or game development environments. On the embedded side, KDAB primarily focuses on HMI and whole-platform aspects, often with an emphasis on performance, efficiency and correctness. They are creating and contributing to many open source projects around developer tooling, for example CXX-Qt, the safe Rust bindings for Qt. With 100+ employees from 20 countries and offices in Sweden, Germany, USA, France and UK, they serve clients around the world.
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Keyrock is an algorithmic trading market maker in the digital assets field. They stand at the intersection of DLT and finance and believe that the tokenization of digital assets will change the world as we know it, for the better. Keyrock also believes that the use of Rust as a Web3 financial technology driver will be the essential building stone for the future.
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Knoldus specializes in digital product engineering and uses Fast Data Intelligence with Functional Programming. Their cutting-edge, future-ready technology can transform systems, processes, and applications to achieve maximum business impact in the shortest time possible.
Their clients have praised our ability to construct high-performance millisecond response real-time apps that deposit data into high-speed data lakes, enabling AI models.
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Mainmatter is a consultancy that empowers teams to fully realize the benefits of Rust for building APIs, data pipelines and web solutions using Rust. They offer consulting services, training, and team augmentation. They are also the organizers of the EuroRust conference. Their focus on Rust is part of our larger vision. At Mainmatter, they partner with clients to develop digital products and practices they can rely on. Mainmatter does not care for trends or theory if the results are impractical, they strive for effective and pragmatic solutions for complex problems. They have identified Rust as one of the key technologies that will enable our clients to shape the future of their digital products successfully.
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The Rust programming language was created by former Mozilla Reasearch engineer, Graydon Hoare. Ever since, Mozilla has been deeply invested in the success of Rust.
Mozilla is aglobal community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible, so people worldwide can be informed contributors and creators of the Web. They believe this act of human collaboration across an open platform is essential to individual growth and our collective future.
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Open Source Security, Inc exists to both fill the void left by underfunded and understaffed attention to security in Linux and advance the state of the art in system defense. As creators of the technologies behind DEP, ASLR, CFI, and many other defensive measures adopted in one form or another by all modern operating systems, Open Source Security, Inc’s track record for understanding vulnerabilities and creating effective defenses is unmatched in the industry.
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OxidOS is a Rust-based secure ecosystem for safety critical automotive ECUs. Their solution consists of a Rust-based Secure Operating System and DevTools for medium-size microcontrollers inside automotive ECUs, designed for safety-critical applications. The OxidOS ecosystem provides significant security and safety enhancements while reducing development and certification time by half for automotive ECU software development projects. This is achieved through the usage of Rust that brings benefits such as memory and thread safety enforced at compile time. The OxidOS architecture runs memory sandboxed applications, which have cryptographic credentials and are digitally signed.
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Red Badger is a digital product consultancy that builds products, platforms, and capabilities in blue chip companies and scale-ups. Places such as big banks (JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Santander), global media (FT, BBC, Sky, News, Reach), and leading brands (Fortnum’s, Selfridges, Nando’s, Levi’s). Red Badger builds products and platforms to drive major revenue and business successes for their clients.
Red Badger’s role is to help enterprise and scale-up clients choose and deploy the best possible technologies for achieving their business goals through digital products, platforms, and capabilities. They help them understand the opportunity of Rust and the most pragmatic routes to adopting it.
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The Slint team is passionate group working to revolutionize the process of creating graphical user interfaces. Their mission is to provide an open source platform to enable designers and developers to iteratively collaborate on user interface design, from creation to deployment.
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Tag1 is redefining the boundaries of digital possibilities. As a leading name in the industry, they are committed to delivering innovative and tailored solutions that meet your specific needs. They boast a roster of highly skilled professionals, many of whom are principal architects and maintainers of crucial Drupal projects and core initiatives.
Tag1’s expertise is both broad and deep. They specialize in Enterprise-Scale Web Applications, CMS solutions, Drupal Upgrades and Migrations, and Full Digital Transformations. They also excel in Integrations and Custom Development, ensuring our solutions align with your business objectives.
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Techfund.jp’s mission is to accompany all entrepreneurs with ideas and aspirations, and to maximize new business development and funding with technology through their accumulated innovation theory and technology.
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Threema is a secure, open-source, cross-platform instant messaging app that offers end-to-end encryption. It was developed by Threema GmbH in Switzerland and launched in 2012.
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Trace Machina is an open source company building NativeLink. Trace Machina plans to pull futuristic machines into the present with memory-safe and deterministic model execution. Globally distributed, the company brings together open source maintainers from places like Google, Apple, and MongoDB to economize AGI in the physical world.
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TSY Capital is a quantitative trading firm founded in 2022 and based in Hong Kong. They employ machine learning to design and implement algorithmic trading systems that capture inefficiencies across global equity markets. Their target is to generate superior and consistent risk-adjusted returns. TSY Capital has a team consisting of talented software developers and quantitative researchers. They strive to build a collaborative environment for team members to share and learn from one another.
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Turbofish is a team of Rust developers building open-source blockchain technology. They founded Nomic, a Bitcoin bridge for the Cosmos ecosystem, and Orga, a fully custom blockchain stack that we use to develop Nomic.
Turbofish aims to serve the developers and users of applications built with Orga. They work like a video game studio, where Orga is like their game engine. By building Orga up to meet the needs of Nomic, Turbofish is working to make it the perfect state machine engine for developers to build their their applications in the future.
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Tweede golf is a Rust engineering consultancy and actively contributes to the Rust ecosystem. They believe that software must become safer; that this is paramount in the digital infrastructures we rely on; and that Rust is an outstanding choice of technology for this purpose. Tweede golf’s engineers have ample experience designing and building software for systems, web and embedded platforms. They offer engineering, consultancy and training to their clients. Notable open-source Rust projects include Pendulum (ntpd-rs), Rust 101 and sudo-rs.
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Veecle is a Rust software stack that enables a software-defined-vehicle on top of existing vehicle architechtures, empowering manufacturers to directly create and enhance features.
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Watchful is the machine teaching solution for data-centric A.I. Watchful accelerates AI dev by 10-100x by focusing on the most important part: the data.
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WyeWorks empowers businesses with Elite Software Development Talent. It’s composed by a team of expert software developers who build software using Ruby, Rust, Elixir, and Javascript, with vast experience in Agile methodologies and leadership coaching.
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xFusion Digital Technologies Co., Ltd. (also referred to as “xFusion”) is a leading global provider of computing infrastructures and services. Guided by the vision “Let Computing Serve You Better”, xFusion continuously creates value for customers and partners, and accelerates the digital transformation of various industries. With a global footprint, xFusion has established 11 research centers, 7 regional offices, and 6 Global Technical Assistance Centers (GTACs) worldwide. They have delivered innovative computing solutions to over 10,000 customers in over 130 countries and regions, including 223 Fortune Global 500 companies across key industries such as telecom, finance, internet, transportation, and energy.
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Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain and AI.
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