Greetings Za,
I’m long Rust. We use it at ECC for all the critical bits (eg librustzcash), and the ZF uses it for Zebra. My first ‘fingers dirty’ moment with Rust was when I participated in the Powers of Tau way back when. Greg Fitzgerald (CTO/founder at Solana) is also a Boulderite and a big proponent of Rust.
I’m pleased to see that rather than just a repeat of #mozillalifeboat that Mozilla is working w/ the Rust team to create this foundation. It will be interesting to see how the foundation evolves over time. I see its creation as a step in the right direction for the Rust community to be able to have continued care and feeding for this important modern language.
Cool idea. Thanks for volunteering to reach out to them and help them get that set up 
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