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Oct 15, 2019 at 00:31
Rust gaining more sponsors!
AWS’ sponsorship of the Rust project | Amazon Web Services
AWS’ sponsorship of the Rust project | Amazon Web Services
We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all using Rust. Rust has also seen lots of growth […]

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