Microsoft has donated $1 million to The Rust Foundation to do whatever it sees fit. Microsoft, a Rust Foundation Platinum Member, made an unrestricted donation in December 2023 to help the organization advance the performance, safety, and sustainability of the Rust programming language. However, the announcement of the donation was delayed because the foundation needed time to democratically decide how to best allocate the funds to support the Rust maintainers and the language itself, Dr. Rebecc...