I also don't see a strong consortium.
The Rust Foundation’s board and independent structure were developed to best serve our mission of stewarding the Rust programming language and community.
rustfoundation.org
Look at all the directors. They're all from the usual suspects. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Huawei and the others. It's very obvious that the political push for this language on the internet is baked by money from the same companies that have spent decades trying to EEE open source efforts. So I'm not sure why anyone would trust them or get excited about using a language that still relies on C/C++ to compile itself. It does everything such companies want. For starters it makes any platform they don't have control of at the firmware/hardware level obsolete. Since nothing outside of modern ARM and X86-64 can natively compile it. It doubles sometimes quadruples compile times. Thus requiring access to server farms they're all too happy to rent you if you require the ability to quickly deploy updated binaries to end users. It by-passes decades of effort on every front FOSS was attempting to gain ground. It has legions of clueless new programmers that have probably never written anything of value promoting it. It's pure propaganda at its finest.
It's no wonder that DARPA, the DoD and friends are all-in on it. The same people that forced things like systemd into the Linux ecosystem. They hold software back like they hold back science in general. People are all too happy to go along with them and their policies as long as the grand money keeps flowing. Anyone that points out the elephant in the room is labeled a conspiracy theorist and shunned by the establishment. It will never improve security for the general user. In fact, it will make them less secure. Just like the hardware they're running all their software on now that is required to have all manner of BS baked into it to be sold on the market.
The future is pretty clear. Dumb terminals for everyone connected to massive server farms that will only accept input and produce output that's approved by the state. Where everything is tightly controlled and monitored. It's no wonder why they don't care about the cries of end users. They know none of them will have the ability to write and run their own software soon anyway. Something like x86 general use CPUs is never going to happen again. It was a mistake they will never repeat. Look at the average cell phone user. That's the future of computing. To most of those people it might as well be a magic screen and they don't care if the software is running locally or on some far away server. As long as you tell them some lies about how secure their data is they're happy to go along and will be wow'ed by any 20+ year old new feature you re-brand and sell to them for the 100th time.
The arguments against including something like Rust in the base system or the Linux kernel have been sound and re-stated over and over and over again for almost a decade now. But still people come to promote it. If you push them they always repeat the same few non-arguments and refuse to engage with any real technical discussion. It's pretty obvious those people are a combination of shills and clueless newbies.
In short, Rust is a virus much like the CoCs and all the other things corperate and non-tech people have pushed on us over the years. Once you give them an inch they always take a mile. Like a virus they're constantly forced to move on to the next host and destroy the old host in their wake. They aren't interested in improving anything. Only destorying things. They aren't interested in creating things. Only absorbing things and bringing them into the fold.
I will not be surprised when I wake up some day soon and discover I'm not allowed to access the internet at all through the fiber connection I pay for simply because none of the devices on my network are "trusted" any longer. That's coming very soon. Most people will not notice because most people are "upgrading" every year anyway. Most people now don't even own their hardware. They rent it under some kind of contract. Everything from their cell phone to their ISP's modem/router is like that. All of which can be remotely accessed and forced "upgraded" at any time. The vast majority of people don't have their own servers anymore either. They rent a VPS or some space on shared hosting. Very very few buy an actual server and co-locate it in a datacenter.
It's really obvious where things are headed if you take even a moment to pay attention. There is no way most real tech people don't see it. Sadly, most of them are more than willing to go along because they feel like they're in the club or they are beholden to the system for the money. There are far too many "experts" being promoted these days that can't even write hello world in C. So many "hackers" being promoted on social media that can't even compile their own kernel. But the clueless propulation is easy to fool and praises them as an actual genuis all the same. Most of the things I see day-to-day are a total sham.
Access for me but not for thee. That's been the creed of these types since the days when AT&T's POTS network was the bleeding edge of technology. Not much has changed since back then. It's still AT&T and IBM leading the charge. They just do it from behind a bunch of different company names now. All of which are just a wing of the military. I personally just assume anything coming out of these people's mouths is a lie. So excuse me for not putting much faith in whatever they say. They've been caught too many times in the past to give them the benefit of the doubt.
All that aside I'll say it again: Bringing another language into the kernel is always a bad idea. The more complicated something is the harder it is to understand. True genuis is simplicity. Only stupid people admire overly complicated things. Complicated things always have more bugs by their nature. That's just how life is.
You'd think in 2025 we'd had all moved on from running an OS designed in the 1960s anyway. But here we are. There were several attempts to make something better over the years. All were snuffed out by the same people that are claiming we need things like Rust now. So if they want to blame someone for all this insecure software in common use they have no one to blame but themselves.
