Post #741466 · Elektrine

2026-03-13 16:53 UTC

My job role has changed, making me no longer sponsored full time for undirected Rust development. Almost 5 years is a good run and I appreciate what my company has allowed me to do in that time and for still providing me a role at the conclusion of that run. I will be needing to scale back my role on the Cargo team and the maintenance of my crates. What this will look like exactly? I&#39;m not sure yet. Obvious answers are that I will no longer be writing the This Development in Cargo blog series and giving micro-reports here on where my time is going. Something that will help is that a focus of mine for Cargo and my crates was to streamline maintenance.

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@epage@hachyderm.io 2026-03-13 16:53

Off the top of my head, some accomplishments from along the way: - Getting `clap` v3 out (stuck in limbo for years) and then v4 - Polish on and continued maintenance of `typos` - Creation of `trycmd` to test clap's documentation - Making `winnow` - Making `toml_edit` production ready - Getting `cargo add` into Cargo - Mentored the work on Cargo's workspace inheritance - 2 rewrites of `toml` - Creation of `anstyle` and `anstream`, providing an alternative approach to enriching CLIs - Significant work to `cargo release` - Keeping the lights on for many crates at https://github.com/rust-cli/ - Cargo script, from experiments to it being approved for stabilization (stabilization is pending) - Designed and implemented `[lints]` support in Cargo, an idea people had given up on (which I didn't know at the time) - MSRV-aware dependency resolver for Cargo (originally thought impossible with the current code base) - Created a vision and roadmap for improving the test experience for Cargo users - Pulling `snapbox` out of `trycmd` and making it scale to Cargo's needs - Mentored work on Cargo workspace publishing - Led exploration in defining plumbing commands for Cargo - Led exploration in alternative architectures for `cargo fix` to better scale with large workspaces - Advocated for a cross-project, user-centric perspective on build performance - Performance optimizations in Cargo - Spoke at RustNL, GOSIM, Rust in Paris, and RustWeek

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@diondokter@fosstodon.org 2026-03-13 17:32

@epage oh dang, that sucks! You've done an amazing job

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@djc@hachyderm.io 2026-03-13 20:34

@epage hoping the new role will still be interesting for you!

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@hjvt@hachyderm.io 2026-03-13 23:56

@epage feels like a lot of active rust contributors have recently been affected in similar ways. A bit worrying, hope it's not a recession indicator.

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@manpacket@functional.cafe 2026-03-14 11:44

@epage thank you for all the improvements to cargo!

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@fahdashour@hachyderm.io 2026-03-17 03:10

@epage Thanks for everything you did. I've had the pleasure getting a review from you. Wish you luck in the next steps!

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