I have only the vague understanding that there are governance structures in place for open source projects. Can you go into a little detail about what aspects of this project's governance impress you?
aturon's response below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046882) outlines most of what I would say - really its the RFC process that I'm most interested with and how that is managed in an open way. There are always pet ideas and desires that complicate processes like this - the volume of RFC's the project has dealt with is impressive with no major community rifts that I have heard of.
This page talks about the process and their code of conduct: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-development-poli...