Rust Core Team Announces the Formation of the Rust Foundation Like by The Rust Core Team today announced the formation of the Rust Foundation and more than a million dollars in annual commitments to support the language and community. Late last year, Mozilla and the Rust Core Team announced their intention to create a new foundation to steward the Rust programming language and growth of the ecosystem. Today, Ashley Williams--a member of the Rust Core Team and interim executive director for the Rust Foundation--formally announced the foundation's creation via the new Rust Foundation Team blog. The Rust Foundation is a new independent non-profit organization whose purpose is to steward the Rust language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.