The Rust environment has seen a lot of growth in all areas. It lead to visible friction and public conflict that may be hard to understand for people, particularly those that are new to Rust. That begs a number of questions: Is this normal? Is this special to Rust? Just growth pain? Or something deeper? And whatever the answers are - to which level should individual community members care? This talk sums up many discussions of worry and hope I had over the last months. It acts a both a summary of the past, but above all make you more competent for the conversations about the future of Rust that are ahead of us. 🦀 *About Florian Gilcher* 🦀 Florian Gilcher (https://twitter.com/Argorak) is one of the co-founders and management directors of Ferrous Systems. Previously, he was part of the Rust project, as part of the community and core team, and a co-organiser of the Rust Berlin Meetup and the RustFest conference. His current driving motiviation is bringing Rust to the industry, currently to the industries of highest assurances, for example automotive and aerospace. For that, he’s currently leading the Ferrocene project - the qualification of the Rust project to highest assurances.