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Mozilla officially sponsored the Rust project in 2009.<ref name="MITTechReview"/> [[Brendan Eich]] and other executives, intrigued by the possibility of using Rust for a safe [[web browser]] [[browser engine|engine]], placed engineers on the project including Patrick Walton, Niko Matsakis, Felix Klock, and Manish Goregaokar. A conference room taken by the project developers was dubbed "the nerd cave," with a sign placed outside the door.<ref name="MITTechReview"/>
By 2010, work had shifted from the initial OCaml compiler to a [[Self-hosting (compilers)|self-hosting compiler]] (i.e., written in Rust) based on [[LLVM]].{{cn|date=November 2024}} The Rust ownership system was also in place by 2010.<ref name="MITTechReview"/> The Rust logo was developed in 2011 based on a bicycle [[chainring]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rust logo |url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680521 |website=bugzilla.mozilla.org |access-date=2 February 2024}}</ref> By 2012, the new Rust compiler [[Bootstrapping (compilers)|bootstrapping chain]] was in place.{{refn|group=note|The list of all compiler versions in Rust has history going back to 2012.<ref name=Nelson2022RustConf>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIjG-y4zaA |last=Nelson |first=Jynn |title=RustConf 2022 - Bootstrapping: The once and future compiler |publisher=Rust Team |date=2022-08-05 |access-date=2024-10-29 |location=Portland, Oregon |via=YouTube}}</ref>}}
The first public release, Rust 0.1 was released in January 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=0.1 first supported public release Milestone · rust-lang/rust |url=https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/milestone/3?closed=1 |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref> The early 2010s saw increasing involvement from open source volunteers outside of Mozilla and outside of the United States. At Mozilla, executives would eventually employ over a dozen engineers to work on Rust full time over the next decade.<ref name="MITTechReview"/>
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