Mara Bos
@mara.bsky.social
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Rust dev, Electronics engineer, Author, Rust library team lead, ADHD, Polyamorous, Lesbian, She/Her
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mara.bsky.social
If your company is interested in funding Rust maintainers, please reach out to me or @erikjee.bsky.social!

You can find our sponsors prospectus here: rustnl.org/resources/Ru...

Let me know if you want to talk! 💛

(Message me through Bluesky, Mastodon, Rust Zulip, or email: [email protected])
mara.bsky.social
Over the last few months, we have spoken to the Rust Foundation and several big companies about our plans. The input we've received and the positive reactions so far makes us believe we can make this happen. Today, we are publishing our plans for a wider audience, in search for the required funding.
mara.bsky.social
What we need now is companies who rely on Rust to step up and contribute financially. Having your business rely on the work of unpaid volunteers is not sustainable in the long term. It's a risk.

And if your company contributes to Rust, keeping the project well-maintained will accelerate your work.
mara.bsky.social
Additionally, we'll provide internships and mentorship, to help retain promising new contributors.

Not only do we need to make sure the current generation of maintainers doesn't burn out, we need to work on the next generation of maintainers too.
mara.bsky.social
Through RustNL, the non-profit foundation behind the largest Rust conference (RustWeek) and the Rust Project's All Hands, we are setting up a fund to provide stable jobs for Rust maintainers. We want to employ six full-time maintainers in 2026.
mara.bsky.social
A significant number of Rust maintainers who got paid for that have lost or quit their job recently. Due to RTO policies, a shift in responsibilities, budget cuts, and/or burnout. This is already quite noticable in the Rust project: longer review queues and more technical debt. This is a problem.
mara.bsky.social
General maintenance is one of the most fundamental jobs in an open source project, but is one of the hardest to get paid for. Adding new features gets you promoted; keeping the lights on does not.

But everything depends on it. Code needs reviews, cleanups, docs. New contributors need mentors, etc.
mara.bsky.social
I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee.bsky.social: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!

Many people and companies contributing to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.

bsky.app/profile/rust...
rustnl.bsky.social
We're excited to announce a new initiative to support the Rust Project, our Rust Maintainers Fund!

We are setting out to employ 6 full-time maintainers and 6 interns in 2026 to make sure #rustlang is well maintained and bugs and contributions get the attention they need.

Read more: rustnl.org/fund
RustNL - Rust Maintainers Fund - Keeping the Rust Project maintained so you can focus on building reliable software
mara.bsky.social
Getting called out in front of hundreds of people for my programming crimes. #eurorust @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy
Tris on stage at Eurorust with a slide displaying "Mara's crimes" in big letters behind him.
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rustnl.bsky.social
RustNL will host the Rust All Hands again in 2026!

The All Hands will be part of RustWeek 2026, and take place on May 21-23.

@mara.bsky.social 's blog post has the details:
blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

#rustweek2026 #rust
The next Rust All Hands | Inside Rust Blog
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
blog.rust-lang.org
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0x76.dev
I'm nearing the end of my masters so starting the search for a job

I'm interested in quite a wide array of things, my main skills & interests lie in Security, (Embedded) Rust and Cloud / Distributed Systems.
Preferably something Hybrid/Remote.

You can find my CV at 0x76.dev/cv.html
Vivian (0x76) - Resume
Vivian's CV
0x76.dev
mara.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who I worked with on the Rust standard library and language. It has been a pleasure. Our paths will definitely cross again. 💛

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mara.bsky.social
I'm excited to find something new that gives me energy and motivation. Most likely, that new thing will have something to do with Rust, but I don't know yet what exactly that will be. Maybe teaching Rust, or writing another book, or solving #burnout in open source.. we'll see. :)

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I'll probably still be occasionally reviewing and contributing, but I don't have any energy left to stay involved as much as I used to. At least for now.

I'll still be a member of the Rust project, as part of the leadership council and organization of the Rust All-Hands 2026.

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mara.bsky.social
After five years, I'm stepping down as team lead and member of the #rustlang library teams. It's been a wonderful time and a pleasure seeing the teams grow and evolve in these years.

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mara.bsky.social
Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet?

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A tweet from @CppCon from 22 september 2015: "Herb Sutter says we are close to solving memory safety in C++ without runtime overhead. #CppCon"
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rustnl.bsky.social
** Ticket sales now open ** Get your Early Bird tickets for RustWeek 2026!

The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.

2026.rustweek.org

#rustweek2026 #rust
RustWeek 2026
RustWeek 2026, The Netherlands - May 18 - 23 2026. The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.
2026.rustweek.org
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errs.io
I urge companies to take funding contributors seriously, in ways that aren’t tied to projects and goals. Being a generalist in the compiler meant that often I wasn’t working towards a roadmap, but my contributions *always* paid off in the long term extensibility of the language.
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Reddit keeps showing me ads: "Find your perfect gamer boyfriend. Use our new dating app for gamers".

You'd think it'd be easier to correctly profile my account that's joined zero gaming subreddits and several lesbian subreddits. 🤔
mara.bsky.social
Earlier this week, we as #RustWeek organizers came together for a dinner party to celebrate the success of RustWeek 2025 and make the first plans for 2026!

What would you like to see at #RustWeek2026? What should we keep the same and what should we change?✨

Excited to see you all again next year.💛
A round dinner table with six matching plates and bowls, each in a different color of the rainbow. In the middle is a pot of (bell pepper) soup and a big lasagne dish. A round dinner table with six plates in the colors of the rainbow with lasagne on them. Eight glasses filled with six layers of yoghurt in the colors of the rainbow, topped off with a stroopwafel. On top, letters made out of powdered sugar spell out RustWeek.
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How else am I going to store a copy of all of crates.io in ram? ;)
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It does. Looks like I should've gotten that instead. :)
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I guess this explains all the segfaults I've gotten from Rustc recently. 😅
A screen displaying Memtest86+ with a list of failed memory addresses.
mara.bsky.social
Thank you all so much for coming to #RustWeek. I had a fantastic week. Organizing it was so much fun. Seeing all the ideas come to life and watching hundreds of people having a good time was magical. ✨️ See you next time.