https://www.rust-lang.org/ has a big old "governance" header on it, which links to this page https://www.rust-lang.org/governance
That page explains the process, who is in charge of it, and links to the roadmap for this year.
2021 is a pretty chill year for Rust overall. The project is largely focused inward, the Foundation is newly launched and figuring itself out, the edition is going to be much smaller than in 2018, and most things that are shipping are polish, bugfixes, and small API improvements.
> What is the vision for 2025?
We only plan in year increments; it is extremely difficult to do longer-term forecasting than that in an open source project. To be honest, even yearly is hard to do with more detail than high-level goals.
Why not wait and figure that out when we get there? The world is changing too fast now; consider that any vision for 2020 written in 2015 would probably have been useless by the time we were actually in 2020.
Edit: Also consider that updates to Rust probably don't have nearly as big an effect on your customers as changes to .NET, especially the old .NET Framework which was shipped as a shared runtime environment on the customers' machines. Assuming you ship binaries to your customers, Rust probably isn't even visible to them.
I have taken a look at the Rust documentation, and I just can't see myself participating at this point because of it. The roadmap is also unclear to me. I google 'Rust Roadmap', and guess what the first result is?
https://rust.nolt.io/roadmap
So far a video game's roadmap is ranked above that of this language. I had to search for 'rust-lang roadmap' to get a good top hit... Which brought me here:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/09/03/Planning-2021-Roadmap....
> The core team is beginning to think about the 2021 Roadmap, and we want to hear from the community. We’re going to be running two parallel efforts over the next several weeks: the 2020 Rust Survey, to be announced next week, and a call for blog posts.
A call for blog posts. Beginning to think about...
As a .NET developer, this honestly sounds like a dumpster fire to me. Who is actually in charge? What is the vision for 2025? How do you explain your software technology roadmap to your customers when you are using Rust and have to operate in contract lifetimes of 5+ years?
Clearly, I don't know the first goddamn thing about the Rust ecosystem or why I would want to use it. I am just a dirty .NET plebian looking in from the outside. It doesn't look very compelling right now. Can someone correct my perspective on this? I am open to it. There must be some value I am missing. Maybe Rust just isn't for the "enterprise", or whatever boring niche box I seem to be stuck living in these days.
There are obviously use cases and happy developers out there. Don't let me get in your way.