RustConf 2016
2016-09-09..2016-09-10
Portland, United States
RustConf ·
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who it's for
Rust developers, systems programmers, library authors, tooling engineers, compiler engineers, performance engineers, multimedia engineers, editor plugin developers
topics
ownership and borrowing metaphors; cargo build and cargo run; nom parser combinators; FLV parser module; rayon parallelism; futures-rs and Tokio runtime; Rust Language Server prototype; MIR backend and incremental compilation; union RFC and implementation; rope trees for text editing; DWARF parsing with gimli; Random Forest model serialization in Rust
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | Aaron Turon, Niko Matsakis | 47m |
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… | ||
| The Illustrated Adventure Survival Guide for New Rustaceans | Liz Baillie | 16m |
An illustrated field guide that claims to make Rust approachable for Ruby and JavaScript users by showing concrete tradeoffs and tools: explains ownership and… | ||
| Integrating Some Rust in VLC Media Player | Geoffroy Couprie | 33m |
Claim: replace security‑critical VLC C parsers with Rust code. Implementation uses Rust plus nom parser combinators, hand‑written C bindings and isolated… | ||
| The /r/playrust Classifier... | Suchin Gururangan, Colin O'Brien | 31m |
Built an end-to-end Rust classifier that detects /r/playrust posts on the Rust subreddit using Reddit API data, feature extraction implemented in typed Rust… | ||
| Using Generics Effectively | Without Boats | 24m |
The uploader shows code from Naughty, a terminal that handles Unicode, double-width characters and inline images, and reports that typical apps have about a… | ||
| Back to the Futures | Alex Crichton | 30m |
Promises a concrete implementation: a futures trait with a poll method that composes via combinators, compiles down to a state machine on top of mio with an… | ||
| A Modern Editor Built in Rust | Raph Levien | 36m |
XIeditor is a high‑performance text editor implemented primarily in Rust, claiming 10,000 lines of Rust with 0 uses of unsafe, plus a Mac front end of 1,200… | ||
| RFC: In Order to Form a More Perfect `union` | Josh Triplett | 28m |
Proposal shows the concrete outcome: RFC1444 added union after 16 months, three RFCs and half a dozen syntaxes. The RFC documents choices, interactions with… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Julia Evans | 27m |
Argues that Rust makes systems experiments practical and teaches real systems concepts by showing actual projects: a keyboard driver wired with assembly and… | ||
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