Announcing Our First Maintainers in Residence
By BIOS Founding Team
The Rust Project announced its first cohort under the Maintainer in Residence program, which gives core contributors funded time to focus on critical maintenance work across the compiler, standard library, Cargo, and Clippy.
Funding comes from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, backed by Google, AWS, OpenAI, and other sponsors.
Full details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/26/announcing-our-first-maintainers-in-residence/
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