AWS, in collaboration with the Rust Foundation, is crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library, by setting out a series of challenges for devs and offering financial rewards for solutions.

The safety of the Rust programming language is key to its appeal. Recommendations to switch from C and C++ to Rust have come from a wide range of sources, including the US government, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, and Rust is now supported for use in the Linux kernel.