
Support Rust
If you or your company benefits from Rust and its ecosystem consider supporting it. There are many ways to support Rust:
- Contribute code.
- Write documentation.
- Publish blog posts, videos, or podcasts.
- Answer questions on the forum, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Matrix, or Discord.
- Financial contribution.
Open source has a bit of a problem with sustainability and burning people out. Paying people is one way that we can help compensate them for their time and make open source more sustainable.
Below are people and projects contributing to the Rust ecosystem that are accepting financial contributions. If you or your company is able, consider supporting one or more of these fine folks in their work making Rust better. See also Aaron Turon's list.
To add to, or update this list please raise an issue.
Rust Creators
Paul Masurel
Paul is the creator of the Tantivy full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene. As well as the bitpacking crate containing SIMD algorithms for integer compression via bitpacking.Geoffroy Couprie
Geoffroy is the creator of the nom parser combinator crate and syslog crate. He also contributes to the Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy and lapin asynchronous AMQP client.Ashley Williams
Ashley is a member of the Rust Core Team, Rust WebAssembly working group and lead of the Community and crates.io teams. Ashley also maintains the wasm-pack and cargo-generate projects.Kevin K.
Kevin is the creator and maintainer of the extremely popular clap crate, and the cargo-outdated Cargo sub-command.Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii is passionate about decentralized collaboration (aka "edge computing", "desert computing", "true serverless"), and creating open/free solutions for developers. They recently released SIT (Serverless Information Tracker).Guillaume Gomez
Guillaume is a Rust team member working on improving Rust's errors, documentation, and rustdoc. Their projects include:Jan Bujak
Jan is working on crates to support using Rust on the web:Also check out their NES emulator compiled to WebAssembly which is powered by these crates.
Yutaka Matsubara
Yutaka is building Firestarter, a process and shared socket manager. Firestarter shares sockets using thesystemd
socket passing protocol.Félix Saparelli
Anselm Eickhoff
Anselm is building Citybound, a city-building game. Citybound is being developed completely open source, with regular prototype releases for you to try out!Bruce Mitchener
Bruce is creating a workbench environment centered around structured information. Along the way, they've also produced many new libraries in the Rust programming language to support these goals.Jake "ferris" Taylor
ferris built Rustual Boy, a Virtual Boy emulator. They also do streams either about it or while doing it, then upload them to YouTube.antoyo
antoyo works on many open source projects. The most popular are:They also contribute to gtk-rs and are the maintainer of webkit2gtk-rs.
Peter Atashian
Peter primarily works on winapi, but also other Windows related libraries as well as Rust itself. They also contribute to the the Rust community, assisting people wherever possible, especially with Windows specific problems.Dessalines
Dessalines is building Lemmy - A link aggregator built on ActivityPub. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, lobste.rs, Raddle, or Hacker News.Denis Kolodin
Denis created Yew, a front-end framework designed for WebAssembly. It was inspired by Elm, Redux and React.R-iendo
R-iendo is an open source company specializing in Rust. They are the creators of Yarte, a fast HTML templating engine with Handlebars-like syntax.Cyryl Płotnicki
Cyryl runs a free program that teaches people Rust and a free fuzzing service for Rust projects. Cyryl's open source contributions include cargo, the Rust compiler itself and some libraries around that as well.Sébastien Crozet
Simon N Heath
Jonas Platte
Jonas is the creater of turbo.fish, contributor to the Ruma Matrix client and Fest GTK+ Matrix chat client.Aaron Hill
Aaron works on the Rust compiler fixing bugs and panics amongst other things. They also contribute to Cargo.Pascal Hertleif
Jon Gjengset
Jon is a Rust live coder, and the maintainer of Rust implementations of HdrHistogram, Faktory, and the IMAP protocol. He is also doing research on building a fast new database engine.Kornel
Kornel is the creator of Lib.rs, a fast, lightweight site to find quality Rust libraries and applications. They're also a contributor to Rust and many crates, including:Erin Power
Wesley Moore
Wesley is the curator of Read Rust, this very website! I scour the internet for interesting Rust posts so you dont have to. I'm a member of the Rust Content team and publish crates, such as: ssd1675, cc2650, feedfinder, and profont.Amethyst
The Amethyst project is creating a fast, reliable, open-source game engine. It uses an Entity Component System (ECS) architecture and gfx-rs to render graphics with OpenGL, and soon Vulkan and Metal.Sean Griffin
Sean created Diesel, an ORM and query builder and co-leads the team that manages crates.io. They're the person who gets woken up at 3 AM if the service goes down.Raph Levien
Raph started the xi-editor project and also maintains pulldown-cmark and a number of other Rust crates. Recently he started working on skribo, a library for low-level text layout. Raph posts about his projects on his blog.Pierre Krieger
Jeremy Soller
Jeremy is the creator and lead developer of Redox OS, a Unix-like microkernel operating system written in Rust.Florian Gilcher
Florian is a RustFest organiser, member of the Rust Community team, and Events team lead.Matthias Endler
Matthias publishes the Hello Rust! show featuring live coding sessions building in, and exploring Rust.Jorge Aparicio
Embedded Rust extraordinaire Jorge has built and published all kinds of crates to make embedded Rust not only possible but interoperable and safe.QuietMisdreavus
QuietMisdreavus leads the the Rustdoc Team, helping organize issue triage and reviewing new contributions to the documentation tool.Igor Matuszewski
Igor is a member of the Rust Dev tools team working on the Rust Language Server (RLS), and other dev tools.Alex Lyon
Jacky Alciné
Jacky is working on ActivityDesk, a native desktop application written in Rust and Qt that provides a means of interacting with the social Web from your personal desktop.Kat Marchán
Philipp Hansch
Philipp is a member of the Clippy team where he's mainly fixing bugs and crashes to make Clippy more fun to use. When not working on Clippy, he can be found contributing to rustc and other tools. Since 2018 this work has amounted to over 200 pull requests.Philipp Oppermann
Philipp is publishing a book on Writing an OS in Rust and also maintains crates for OS development: