Session + Live Q&A

What's Next for Rust and WebAssembly

Most people have heard of Rust, due to the vibrant and happ[y community around the language, exemplified by it having held the top spot as the 'most loved' language in the Stack Overflow developer survey for the past six years. However, few of us get the chance to use this delightful language in our day-to-day work.

WebAssembly is a new runtime, born in the browser, yet making a significant impact as a versatile runtime for a wide range of applications (FaaS, blockchain, plug-in). 

There is a close synergy between WebAssembly and Rust - Rust is both an ideal language for writing WebAssembly applications and for creating WebAssembly runtimes. In this panel we'll explore this synergy, and see where the combined might of WebAssembly and Rust might take us.


Speaker

Luca Palmieri

Principal Engineer @TrueLayer

Luca Palmieri is a Principal Engineer at TrueLayer. He is one of the co-organisers of the Rust London Meetup and the author of "Zero To Production In Rust", an introduction to backend development using the Rust programming language.

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Speaker

William Overton

Senior Serverless Solutions Architect @Fastly

 William Overton is a Senior Serverless Solutions Architect at Fastly where we're working on the future of edge computing. His main focuses are helping customers adopt (and get excited about) WebAssembly and Serverless Computing. In his spare time Will likes trying out new technologies...

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Speaker

Lily Mara

Engineering Manager @OneSignal

Lily Mara is an Engineering Manager at OneSignal in San Mateo, CA. She manages the Infrastructure Services team, which is responsible for in-house services used by other OneSignal engineering teams. Previously she was a software engineer at OneSignal, leading the efforts to create OneSignal's...

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Rob Pilling

Lead Developer @Scott_Logic

I'm a lead developer at Scott Logic, a multifaceted UK-based software consultancy. I maintain an active interest in tech developments, having contributed to projects such as Rust and my favourite text editor, Vim! I can be found on github as bobrippling.

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