Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a deeper commitment to the Rust programming language ecosystem. The company already ships an up-to-date Rust toolchain in Ubuntu repositories and has replaced core system components like coreutils and sudo with Rust implementations. As a Gold Member, Canonical gains a seat in language and ecosystem governance. Key areas of interest include the security of the crates.io package registry and reducing unknown transitive dependencies for async, HTTP, and cryptography in regulated environments.
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