Facebook is a Platinum member of the Rust Foundation, which oversees the Rust ecosystem, supports key maintainers involved in development and decision making, and is responsible for arranging funding for the project. Platinum members receive the right to have a company representative on the board of directors. Joel Marcey became the Facebook representative, joining representatives from AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on the board of directors, as well as five members selected from the Core Team and groups responsible for reliability, quality, and community engagement.
It is noted that Facebook has been using the Rust language since 2016 and uses it in all aspects of development, from source management to compilers (for example, the Mononoke Mercurial server used in Facebook, the Diem blockchain and the reindeer assembly toolkit are written in Rust). By joining the Rust Foundation, the company intends to contribute to the improvement and development of the Rust language.
It is claimed that Facebook has hundreds of developers using Rust, and the code written in Rust is already in the millions of lines of code. In addition to disparate teams using the Rust language for development, this year Facebook also created a separate team within the company that will be responsible for developing the development of internal projects using Rust, as well as helping the community and pushing changes to Rust-related projects, compiler and the Rust standard library.
Source: opennet.ru