[$] Tor gets financial support for Arti development

There is a lot of buzz around the Rust programming language these
days—which strikes some folks as irritating, ridiculous, or both. But the
idea of a low-level language that can replace C, with
fewer built-in security pitfalls, is
attractive for any number of projects. Recently, the Tor Project announced the Arti project as a
complete Rust rewrite of Tor's core protocols, which provide
internet privacy and anonymity. In addition, Tor announced that
Arti received a grant
to support its development over the next year or so.