Rust Conference Sessions and Keynotes: A Comprehensive Overview
Table of Contents
- 1. Sessions
- 1.1. Hallway
- 1.2. 9:45–10:30am Opening Keynote Aaron Turon and Niko Matsakis
- 1.3. 10:45–11:15am The Illustrated Adventure Survival Guide, Liz Baillie
- 1.4. 11:30–12:00pm Integrating Rust and VLC, Geoffroy Couprie
- 1.5. 12:00–1:30pm Lunch
- 1.6. 1:30–2:00pm The RustPlay Classifier, Suchin Gururangan and Colin O'Brien
- 1.7. 2:15–2:45pm Using Generics Effectively Without Boats
- 1.8. 3:00–3:30pm Back to the Futures, Alex Crichton
- 1.9. 3:30–4:00pm Snack Break
- 1.10. 4:00–4:30pm A Modern Editor in Rust, Raph Levien
- 1.11. 4:45–5:15pm RFC: In Order to Form a More Perfect union, Josh Triplett
- 1.12. 5:30–6:00pm Closing Keynote, Julia Evans
1. Sessions
1.1. Hallway
- Mozilla web assembly
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/03/a-webassembly-milestone/
1.2. 9:45–10:30am Opening Keynote Aaron Turon and Niko Matsakis
- Rust roadmap is under development
- 6 month milestones with retrospectives
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md
- key challenge is the learning curve (3 week front-loading)
- The preformance challenge of Hello World! server not one of Node questions
- ownership and borrowing as part of the hurdle
- exampes of clean implementations: longest_line, load_images
- closures as the key issues given the number of fn calls; environment resolution as ergonomics of programming