C++ && Rust : 'Access All Arenas' - James Munns

Over the past five and a half years since its 1.0 release, Rust has started to become the language of choice for developers across a wide variety of applications and industries. This talk will explore where the language came from, the challenges it was designed to overcome, and how people have started to apply Rust to areas above and beyond the original intent. In particular, James will focus on areas like web assembly, embedded systems, and even moving into the safety-critical domain with efforts like Sealed Rust - that have been rapidly picking up steam in the Rust developer communities

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[DavidFreeseLee]

Was very confused. Assumed this was a talk on arena allocators.

[agni]

i like it !!! moving to rust from js myself

[heater]

A great presentation. Thanks.

With regard the performance of Rust, in my first year of Rust have been able to match the speed of C/C++ in all the little programs of mine that I reimplemented in Rust for exactly this comparison. Most of those C/C++ programs were performance leaders in various coding challenges I have been involved in.

BUT: The performance of Rust can be very sensitive to the way you write your Rust, even for the same algorithm. For example using good old fashioned C style array indexing vs Rust style iterators. It's not always clear which will be better at the outset. As usual, measure everything.

[yotty]

anyonoe else find rust programmers so smug and condescending? i cant stand them

[yotty]

wtf are you YELLING in this talk? just talk gently, stop being hysterical ffs, calm down