Welcoming Shopify as Our Inaugural Gold Member

Shopify joins the Rust Foundation as its first Gold Member.

We are thrilled to announce that Shopify has joined the Rust Foundation as our first Gold Member! #

Shopify is a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, offering trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify is powered by a robust tech stack that includes Rust, making their investment in Rust through the Rust Foundation both timely and relevant.

On their new status as a Rust Foundation Gold Member, Mike Shaver, Distinguished Engineer at Shopify said:

“Shopify is proud to join the Rust Foundation and support their mission of empowering everyone to build sustainable, efficient, and safe software. Shopify is building a 100-year company, and we are equally committed to our developer community and helping Rust be a 100-year tool that easily scales for everyone who uses it. Powering commerce for millions of merchants requires systems built to scale and perform, and Rust is a big part of Shopify’s strategy for building those systems. Becoming part of the Rust Foundation supports Rust’s growth, as well as the Rust community and ecosystem.” 

The Rust Foundation’s Gold membership tier reflects a genuine commitment to the future of Rust and its community. To learn more about our various tiers of membership, click here

Shopify, thank you for joining the Rust Foundation in our mission to make computer systems to be more secure, efficient, and performant through the use of the Rust programming language. #