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Is there any way to financially support the project? I have only been able to find a couple of Patreon pages of people working on specific libraries I haven't been using personally.

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I don’t think there exists a way to support the Rust project directly, but there are some indirect ways: supporting Mozilla, that employs many of the core develioers is one. Another one, announced just this week, is to support the Rust Analyzer, which is a project to create a next-level IDE-compatible Rust compiler: https://opencollective.com/rust-analyzer/expenses/new

Agree on supporting Rust Analyzer. The project recently published an update[1] on the status and future plans.

[1] https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-analyzer-status-openco...

The project is sponsored by Mozilla so I guess the best way to support it is to use Firefox...

Here's Mozilla's donation page: https://donate.mozilla.org

Note that donations go to Foundation rather than Corp though. It's not clear how much - if anything - goes to dev projects like Rust.

Mozilla Corporation is fully owned by Mozilla Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

Corporation is separated from Foundation for legal and tax reasons, otherwise, it is the same org.

(But employees of Mozilla get their salary, and it's not possible to give money directly to Mozilla Rust developers.)

Yes I know, but I thought Foundation does a lot of less-techie things outside of Corp?

It is currently not possible to donate directly to Rust development. Those Patreons are the closest thing.

If anyone's particularly wealthy, they could personally sponsor a contract developer to spend time working on a desired feature. There's plenty of work to be done that's limited by the amount of labor available.

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