DOVER, DELAWARE, November 12, 2024 – The Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit dedicated to stewarding and advancing the Rust programming language, released a comprehensive problem statement addressing the challenges and opportunities in C++ and Rust interoperability. This publication marks a significant step toward making cross-language development more accessible and approachable…
The money Google pays to Mozilla has a direct ROI, since more people use their search engine.
Giving money to the Rust foundation only helps Google very indirectly, by being generally benefitial to software companies.
Google is using Rust more and more in Android, Chromium. So its in Googles direct interest to have a better interoperability between Rust and C++. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/ and https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-hails-move-to-rust-for-huge-drop-in-memory-vulnerabilities are articles talking why Google likes using Rust.