Opening Keynote
summary
Update on Rust’s status: 3,000 survey responses highlight learning curve, IDEs and compiler speed as top blockers; 175 API items hit stable since 1.0; MIR backend is default on nightly/beta and incremental compilation is in alpha with known bugs; tool work includes rustup for toolchains and cross‑compilation, rustfmt strike team, docs.rs auto‑docs, Rayon and Tokio maturing server/parallel libraries, and a prototype Rust Language Server combining Racer and the compiler for accurate IDE features.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:23Friends of Rust
- 3:55Rust Community
- 4:21Roadmap Process
- 11:37Productivity
- 12:58Tradeoffs
- 13:51Cake
- 14:45What people love about Rust
- 16:23Rust is the fastest
- 16:34Trusting the compiler
- 18:48Ownership and borrowing
- 18:59String literals
- 19:51Map borrowing
- 21:40Closures
- 25:56Libraries
- 26:57Rust on the Server
- 31:15Finding Rust Libraries
- 32:38Ember Observer
- 33:18Discoverability
- 33:42Quality
- 36:42Rust Up
- 40:05IDs
- 40:46IntelliJrus
- 41:08Rust Language Service
- 46:05Other Rust Teams








