Speaker
Abstract
Rust's claim to fame is its memory safety without compromising on performance, eliminating whole classes of security vulnerabilities and bringing systems programming to the new generation.
But there is more to Rust than just memory safety. Its language features, official tooling, and ecosystem offer countless opportunities to help your team develop and maintain reliable and efficient software, all with excellent developer experience.
In this presentation, we'll uncover some of Rust's hidden gems, and see how they can benefit your project:
- How Rust's type system can be used to ensure correctness and ease refactorings.
- Leveraging procedural macros to reduce code duplication.
- Introducing parallelism without fear.
- Top-notch tooling from the Rust project.
Interview
My primary focus nowadays is bringing Rust to safety-critical industries by qualifying the Rust compiler (with Ferrocene).
Rust's memory safety is the most talked about feature of Rust (for a good reason!), but there is so much more to the language that can benefit projects of any size. I want to shed some light on them!
Technical folks who are looking at Rust or investigating which technology stack to adopt for their next project.
A better understanding of the advantages and tradeoffs of Rust, and when it makes sense to use it.
Topics
QCon London 2024 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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