[$] Tor gets financial support for Arti development

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