The New Frontier: A Gentle Introduction to Rust
summary
A concise, concrete tour of Rust: it reaches Rust 1.0 May 2015 and the open-source community grows to ~2700 contributors; the compiler front-end feeds LLVM and Rust keeps no runtime while providing zero-cost abstractions and generics specialization. Memory safety comes from ownership and borrowing rules, with Rc/Arc and Mutex+Arc for shared data and channels for message-passing concurrency; async/await is still stabilizing. Real-world usage includes Snips running Rust on-device for embedded voice recognition and many companies using Rust for databases, storage engines and web servers.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Start
- 1:38Why Is Rust Actually Existing
- 3:37Rust Nairobi Meetup
- 5:46Type System
- 12:26Why Does Rust Actually Exists and What Is He Trying To Solve
- 15:00Deadlocks
- 22:10Main Goals
- 24:41Llvm
- 25:42Zero Cost Obstructions and Generics
- 25:52Zero Cost Abstractions
- 27:11Zero Overhead Principle
- 28:33Safety
- 31:06The Ownership Method
- 32:12Borrowing and Lifetimes
- 36:36Smart Pointers
- 38:27Atomic Reference Counting
- 39:29Concurrency
- 41:51Thread
- 42:43Shared State
- 46:11Meta Programming
- 48:30Generics Using Traits
- 49:00Default Implementation
- 53:54Dev Tooling
- 54:04Rust Clippy
- 56:36What Software Engineering Is
- 57:39Refactoring
- 57:53Design Patterns
- 1:00:48Community Repository
- 1:01:58Using Rust in Production
- 1:02:37Community
- 1:03:22Where To Start
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