--- title: An invitation to Rust maintainers | daily.dev description: Determinate Systems is inviting Rust project maintainers to add Riff metadata to their Cargo.toml files. Riff is a Nix-based tool that automatically resolves... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/an-invitation-to-rust-maintainers-zduiryixf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: An invitation to Rust maintainers | daily.dev og:description: Determinate Systems is inviting Rust project maintainers to add Riff metadata to their Cargo.toml files. Riff is a Nix-based tool that automatically resolves... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/an-invitation-to-rust-maintainers-zduiryixf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZDuIrYIXF.png og:image:alt: An invitation to Rust maintainers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # An invitation to Rust maintainers **[Determinate Systems](https://daily.dev/sources/determinate-systems)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Determinate Systems is inviting Rust project maintainers to add Riff metadata to their Cargo.toml files. Riff is a Nix-based tool that automatically resolves external (non-Rust) dependencies like OpenSSL or the Protobuf compiler that Cargo cannot install. By adding a small metadata block to Cargo.toml, maintainers enable Riff to automatically provision those dependencies for all downstream projects in the dependency tree. The goal is to eventually make 100% of Rust projects buildable with Riff, eliminating the long-standing pain of external dependency management in the Rust ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A Vision for Cargo](https://daily.dev/posts/a-vision-for-cargo-9f2kssnoj) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/an-invitation-to-rust-maintainers-zduiryixf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"An invitation to Rust maintainers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-invitation-to-rust-maintainers-zduiryixf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-invitation-to-rust-maintainers-zduiryixf"},"datePublished":"2026-07-26T07:48:49.777Z","dateModified":"2026-07-26T07:53:31.664Z","description":"Determinate Systems is inviting Rust project maintainers to add Riff metadata to their Cargo.toml files. Riff is a Nix-based tool that automatically resolves...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/fca2981c438d62a10f07d483c04fbfdd?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/fca2981c438d62a10f07d483c04fbfdd?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Determinate Systems","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Determinate Systems","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--E2qrkc9w--/c_limit,w_256/f_auto,q_auto/v1785052094/logos/determinate-systems?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/determinate-systems"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-invitation-to-rust-maintainers-zduiryixf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"rust","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Determinate Systems","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/determinate-systems"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"An invitation to Rust maintainers"}]} ```