One question I’ve had for some time: what exactly is the relationship between Ferrous Systems and the Rust core team? The most important part of this article - the call for sponsors - calls out the former, but I would think Mozilla would also be greatly motivated to sponsor this work. (If they haven’t already?)
It's generally thought in the Rust community that the community benefits from diversifying the pool of stakeholders and also commercial players. Rust doesn't want to identify too hard as "Mozilla's language".
Edit: Forgot to mention: There isn't currently any legal body such as "Rust foundation" so it's hard for the Rust project itself financially sponsor this kind of project. It's mostly either Mozilla or then some "third party" player.
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2020/01/09/towa...
For me, this (coupled with non-lexical lifetimes and error handling improvements) made the difference between "I can't justify using Rust because I can't be sufficiently productive" and "the productivity hit is sufficiently small that it makes good sense to use Rust for some of the applications I write, especially factoring in its rate of improvement".
I imagine that it's evolving quite quickly, and it's also the sort of thing where it's probably both fun and fine to stay close to the bleeding edge. Should I just periodically download the latest released binary, or is it worth building from master?