Rust in Academia and Introduction to Iron
summary
Presents concrete classroom experience using Rust for an operating-systems course (2013), listing practical benefits (ownership-based safety, no garbage collector, easier concurrency, and pushing students to rethink algorithms) and downsides at the time (immaturity, steep learning curve). Demonstrates building a web service with the Iron framework and Cargo that returns JSON using the rand crate and HTTP headers, showing Cargo fetching dependencies and producing a binary; notes community adoption (Dropbox, Servo, Firefox components), a tokio grant, and Rust 1.17 release.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:26Rust in academia
- 13:48Rust history and features
- 27:52Rust in research
- 41:17Recent Rust news
- 51:25Web dev with Rust
- 1:19:34Q&A
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