Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/912704/

Mara Bos has written a lengthy
blog post on whether the Rust language needs to be standardized.
The answer is “no” — but she draws a distinction between a “standard”
(maintained by some distant standards body) and a “specification”.

While no official decision has been made yet, there does seem to be
a general agreement that we should indeed work towards having and
maintaining an official complete Rust specification from within the
Rust project. It’s just a lot of work, so I’m afraid we won’t get
there with just some enthusiastic volunteers, even if we can use
the Ferrocene specification as a start. We’ll need support and
funding from the Rust Foundation and interested companies.