Add NEAR Rust DevTools 2025 status update - #2929
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This document provides a strategic update on the maintenance and evolution of NEAR Rust DevTools, outlining the goals, component status, and future considerations for the tooling ecosystem.
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This PR adds a comprehensive strategic status update for the NEAR Rust DevTools ecosystem in 2025. The document outlines the maintenance strategy, migration plans, and stabilization goals for the Rust tooling stack, with a primary focus on decoupling from nearcore internal crates to achieve stable 1.x releases.
- Establishes a "decoupling" roadmap to migrate away from
nearcoredependencies toward standalone, stable crates - Provides detailed status updates for 15+ components including SDKs, CLI tools, and primitive libraries
- Documents deprecation plans for
near-workspaces-rsand EOL status forbos-cli-rs
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This document provides a strategic update on the maintenance and evolution of NEAR Rust DevTools, outlining the goals, component status, and future considerations for the tooling ecosystem.
I have created this PR mainly to align and discuss the future direction, but we may also consider publihsing it as a public post if DevRels see the benefit in it.