The success or failure of an open source project is often determined by the strength of the community around it. Having a coherent ecosystem helps in building a strong community. Since Rust is primarily driven by Mozilla, they have been able to build a strong ecosystem around it, the primary components being:
- Source code: Rust hosts all the source code in GitHub. Developers are encouraged to report bugs and submit pull requests in there. At the time of writing, the Rust repository on GitHub has 1,868 unique contributors, over 2,700 open bug reports, and 90 open pull requests. The core Rust team is composed of Mozilla employees and contributors from other organizations (like Google, Baidu, and so on). The team uses GitHub for all collaborations; even major changes to any component have to be first proposed by writing a Request For Comments (RFC). This way, everyone...
