Rust Meetup Linz - May 27th

Welcome to the 10TH EDITION of the RUST MEETUP LINZ. Join us for an evening of Rust with two great sessions. This time, we welcome speakers from Germany and Austria.

After a short introduction by the meetup organizers, LISA PASSING will be our first speaker at the meetup. Lisa is a Berlin-based creative technologist, artist, and researcher. Her main obsessions are playful interactions with computers and creative uses of civic tech and data. Lisa's topic will be CREATIVE RUST. Together with her, we'll take a look at some algorithms and tricks in the creative coding toolbox to get us started and use the nannou library to make them a (digital) reality.

Next up are HARALD REINGRUBER and KATHARINA UNGER from Dedalus Healthcare. Harald is passionate about visual computing, software crafting, ensemble- (a.k.a mob-)programming, and hiking on the weekends. In their company, they use Rust for medical visualization and in their talk, they will tell us why they decided to do that.

SCHEDULE 📅 for the meetup on May 27th:

17:30 (5:30pm)
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION (by RUST LINZ ORGANIZERS)

We will start the evening with a welcome round and some community news.

Next up (approx. 17:45 = 5:45pm):
CREATIVE RUST (by LISA PASSING)

We use programs to automate tasks or solve specific problems for us. Too seldomly we use it to create art or simply write playful programs just for the fun of it. How do you write creative code in Rust? I'm so glad you asked! We'll take a look at some algorithms and tricks in the creative coding tool box to get you started and use the nannou library to make them a (digital) reality.

Next up (approx 18:30 = 6:30pm):
WHY WE USE RUST FOR MEDICAL VISUALIZATION (by HARALD REINGRUBER and KATHARINA UNGER)

A native language like C++ is still a natural choice for real-time graphics applications and also has an established workflow for bridging code between the desktop and browser world. For revamping our old 3D rendering module, we also wanted to consider other alternatives. It was quite clear Rust offers great modern tooling and promising new concepts. But most importantly after evaluating two proof of concepts, we saw that the Rust environment is already very mature and supports all our critical requirements. Additionally, future browser features like WebGPU and WebAssembly SIMD (for CPU rendering) are first-class Rust citizens which will get interesting for us once they get production-ready. Join our experience report on why we think that Rust is a great choice for our use case and how we want to use it in the future.