The Rust Foundation was happy to announce OpenAI as our newest Platinum Member today, as part of a $600,000 total contribution in support of the Rust Project and the broader Rust ecosystem. Membership in the Rust Foundation is a way for companies to support the maintainers who are building the…
Those companies and firms back Rust because it’s memory safe without a garbage collector, and great for general purpose programming or systems programming. That’s super important for everyone, but especially large companies working on high performance or mission critical software.
Zig is not memory safe so it’s a non-starter for these things, and has not proven itself in the industry anywhere near what Rust has.
This has nothing to do with Rust being “corporate” or anything wrong with Rust.
Don’t these companies and firms get more power in steering and forming the future, features and efforts of the rust project?
Nope!