Rust
Rust is a systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla Research, which describes it as a "safe, concurrent, practical language", supporting functional and imperative-procedural paradigms. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but its designers intend it to provide better memory safety whilst maintaining performance.
Rust, in Wikipedia. Retrieved 2/24/2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
Position on the Adoption Curve
Presentations about Rust
Rust 2018: An Epoch Release!
From Rocks to Rust: Our C to Rust Paradigm Shift
Rust AMA w/ Steve Klabnik
Interviews
From Rocks to Rust: Our C to Rust Paradigm Shift
Tell me about the work that you're doing today.
We're working on bringing to cloud an existing project for one of our clients. It involves a lot of work with products that are quite old, 20 years old, that were written in C, and we're turning a lot of these old products into microservices, containerising them, looking to get the whole system up and working in the cloud for our client, which involves a lot of cool interfacing with new languages like Rust, trying to build these wrappers on our own products to enable easier RESTful HTTP interfaces. It's quite an exciting mix of the old stuff that we used to do with a lot of new groundbreaking stuff that we're trying to be pioneers for.
Are you writing microservices with Rust?
Yes, some of our new microservices that are part of this project are written in Rust.
