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Join Symposium Co-Creators @nikomatsakis.com & Jack Huey and @orhun.dev of @jetbrains.com on Oct 1 to talk about coding agents that write reliable, idiomatic Rust!

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Live Webinar - Smarter Coding Agents for Rust with Symposium
Discover how Rust and AI can make each other better and how Symposium gives coding agents the crate-aware skills, tools and workflows they need to write more reliable Rust.
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September 28, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Join Symposium Co-Creators @nikomatsakis.com & Jack Huey and @orhun.dev of @jetbrains.com on Oct 1 to talk about coding agents that write reliable, idiomatic Rust!

Register: info.jetbrains.com/rustrover-li...
Read more: rustfoundation.org/event/livest...
Live Webinar - Smarter Coding Agents for Rust with Symposium
Discover how Rust and AI can make each other better and how Symposium gives coding agents the crate-aware skills, tools and workflows they need to write more reliable Rust.
info.jetbrains.com
September 25, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Meet new Distribution Engineer, Arlo Siemsen 🦀

With funding from Alpha-Omega, Arlo will help land TUF-based signing, mirroring, and verification in support of the Rust Project mirroring project goal.

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Meet Arlo Siemsen: Distribution Engineer for the Rust Supply Chain - The Rust Foundation
Since 2022, the Rust Foundation has run a Security Initiative aimed at the parts of the Rust ecosystem that no individual maintainer can reasonably be expected to cover alone: threat modeling for crat...
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September 23, 2026 at 8:05 PM
We're excited to welcome four new members to the Rust Foundation:

Silver Members: @codspeed.io, Haevek, and Perplexity
Associate Member: @stewardshiplab.org

Thanks to these orgs for investing in the health and stewardship of #rustlang! rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...
September 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Rust Foundation Trusted Training Provider @mainmatter.com is hosting an AMA on migrating C/C++ to idionmatic #rustlang on October 1! Don't miss it: luma.com/m2gplobz
September 22, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Please welcome Scott Schafer as the new full-time Maintainer in Residence for the Cargo team! 🦀 📦

This role is funded through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, with added support from the Leadership Council + AWS.

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Announcing a Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo team - The Rust Foundation
This blog post has been cross-posted with permission from its original source: blog.rust-lang.org By Jakub Beránek on behalf of the Rust Project Funding team At the end of August, we announced our…
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September 22, 2026 at 6:23 PM
This past Weds at #rustconf, Joe Birr-Pixton and Daniel McCarney shared an update on the Rustls project 10 years in! Don't miss this write-up from Joe that captures some of what they covered onstage.

Congrats on such a long run of this important project, Rustls! rustfoundation.org/media/guest-...
September 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Thank you to Felipe Monteiro for sharing an update on the Rust Standard Library Verification Contest from AWS and the Rust Foundation at #rustconf earlier this morning!

Learn more and get involved: lnkd.in/gjkfDJ8C
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September 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Thanks to Nicholas Matsakis for sharing this helpful overview of @rust-lang.org Goals and funding them.

Rust Project Goals looking for funding: goals.rust-lang.org/2026/funding...

Overview of #rustlang Goals: goals.rust-lang.org
September 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
More news from the RustConf stage! Rust Foundation Silver Member Peeriot has just announced the developer preview of Myrmic: an open, Rust- based runtime for building stateful software for machines, devices, and distributed physical systems. Learn more : rustfoundation.org/media/guest-...
September 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
🧵 Big onstage announcements from @microsoft.com at @rustconf.com:

- Rust is now a tier-1 language for internal development at Microsoft
- rustc_codegen_utc: a prod-ready compiler backend that
brings Rust onto the same Windows-native code generation platform as MSVC 🎉
September 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
NVIDIA, our newest Platinum Member, launched CUDA Rust today. You can now write GPU kernels in Rust and compile them straight to PTX. Learn more on their blog:

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Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels | NVIDIA Technical Blog
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA…
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September 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Just announced onstage at @rustconf.com: NVIDIA and @solana.com are the newest Platinum members of the Rust Foundation 🦀

Learn more about why each org joined and what it helps us do for Rust: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...
September 9, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Rebecca Rumbul is onstage at #rustconf2026 with a stack of announcements, and we're proud to host an event that's already 10 years old.

Of everything she covered, the one closest to our hearts: maintainers 🧡 Learn more about the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund here: github.com/sponsors/rus...
September 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Our team has begun setting up for #rustconf 🎉 Workshops, early badge retrieval, and the evening Career Crawl (sponsored by Solana) kick off on Tuesday.

Register while you can (virtual starts at $0): bit.ly/4gWyfWK

What part of the week are you most excited for (besides the stickers)?
September 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
New from the Rust/C++ Interop Initiative: a tool support matrix comparing Crubit, cxx, and Zngur across 25+ interop use cases, an overloading experiment you can try, and more! Read Teor's update here: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-c...
September 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Rust Foundation Trusted Training (RFTT) is our accreditation for Rust training providers who meet our standard for curriculum, instructors, and learner experience.

RFTT spotlight: Doulos, offering 35 years of engineering education, 3+ years of Rust courses.

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September 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Congrats to Nicolás Antinori and Hernán G. Gonzalez of Oxidar on presenting "(Why|Who|Where) Rust" at DebConf 26. This is first for Oxidar presenters, and a great introduction of Rust to the Debian community 🦀

Slides + recording: oxidar.org/en/why-who-w...
(Why|Who|Where) Rust at DebConf 26
A talk about why Rust is good for systems development, who is using it in production, and how to get involved with the community.
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September 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Update on AWS' contest to formally verify Rust's std library: Manual proofs got to 725 functions; a new automated tool then verified nearly 12,000! More at RustConf 2026 on Sept 10. In the meantime, don't miss this guest blog from Sr. Applied Scientists @ AWS:

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How the Rust Standard Library Verification Contest Scaled Past Manual Proof Engineering
This article was written with support from Rahul Kumar (Senior Applied Scientist Manager, AWS) & Felipe Monteiro (Senior Applied Scientist, AWS) When the Rust Foundation and AWS launched the…
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September 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Welcoming Jess Izen as our new Engineer in Residence! For the next year she'll work with our team (while staying at AWS) on crates.io security and support for #rustlang community libraries, starting with malicious crate detection for new publishes! 🦀 Learn more: rustfoundation.org/media/welcom...
August 27, 2026 at 4:51 PM
We're live in 5 minutes! 🎥

Join @orhun.dev and Stephen Korzeniewski (Rig, Playgrounds) now for "Building AI applications in Rust". This is the first session in our new livestream series with @jetbrains.com

👉️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdw...
August 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Announcing the 1st cohort of Rust Maintainers in Residence!

Thanks to contributions from Google, AWS, & OpenAI, the Rust Foundation and Rust Project have raised $350K to fund 6 contributors on Rustup, Clippy, compiler, stdlib, & rustdoc 🦀

Read announcement: rustfoundation.org/media/rust-p...
Rust Project and Rust Foundation Announce First Maintainers in Residence
New program directs $350,000 toward maintainers supporting critical Rust infrastructure DOVER, Delaware, USA – August 26, 2026 – The Rust Project and Rust Foundation today announced the inaugural coho...
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August 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Tomorrow! The Rust Foundation & @jetbrains.com livestream series kicks off with @orhun.dev and Stephen Korzeniewski talking real about Rust+AI workflows.

📅 Thurs, Aug 27 @ 16:00 UTC
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🏷️ Bookmark the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdw...
August 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Proud to team up w/ @jetbrains.com for livestreams centered around Rust & AI + how the two are coming together in development. 🦀

Session 1: @orhun.dev talks agents, tooling, & real #rustlang+AI workflows w/ Stephen Korzeniewski.

📅 Aug 27 @ 16:00 UTC
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JetBrains Partners with the Rust Foundation for an AI Livestream Series
A little over a month ago we saw this tweet from Vitaly, who is the Head of Rust Ecosystem at JetBrains. JetBrains is one of our members, developer of RustRover, their dedicated IDE for Rust…
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August 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
New "Built With Rust" story on our blog! 🦀 Processing Foundation replaced their aging OpenGL renderer w/ a shared Rust core (built on Bevy) that compiles to WASM for the browser, links via FFI, or runs natively with Python support.

Their Rust case study: rustfoundation.org/media/built-...
Built with Rust: Processing Foundation
How Processing Foundation's Rust R&D is changing what's possible in the browser. Built With Rust is a new series from the Rust Foundation, spotlighting how Rust Commercial Network member…
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August 21, 2026 at 11:33 PM