It's the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, "an initiative we'll shape in close collaboration with the Rust Project Leadership Council and Project Directors
It is surely meaningful that a leadership council and directors got funding before the people who were actually doing the work maintaining the code.
Bankers in America at least don't really do that. What you're thinking of are large investors. People with net worth over 500 million.
I should have said "the financial industry."
a genuine acceleration of discovery. It's the quiet kind of progress engineers love — invisible, but indispensable...
Who said that engineers love indispensable things?
My observation is that engineers like well-engineered things. I've never heard any engineer anywhere say they like indispensable things. What was the source of information, Gemini?
Mandating other architectures to have a rust toolchain or be dropped by Debian is very impolite.
This should be emphasized. Douglas Crockford says, "breaking compatibility is an act of violence."
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries