Rust Linz, April 2021 - Jan-Erik Rediger - Leveraging Rust to build cross-platform libraries

At Mozilla, Firefox is not the only product we ship. Many others — including a variety of smartphone applications, and certainly not just web browsers — are built by various teams across the organization. These applications are composed of a multitude of libraries that, when possible, are reused across platforms.

In the past 2 years we used Rust to rebuild one of these libraries: the library powering the telemetry in our mobile applications is now integrated into Android and iOS applications and since earlier this year on Desktop as well.

About Jan-Erik Rediger
At Mozilla, Jan-Erik writes stuff so others can measure thingies. He's an active member of the Rust community team since 2014. He coached at Rust workshops & runs Rust conferences in Europe. To get away from computers he picked up scuba diving to see the world underwater.

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Rust is my second programming language after python ... I am very old to call myself a professional programmer; so I will call myself an amateur programmer. I am learning Rust (for the last couple of months) after I discovered python is not that fast ... so my goal basically is to write extensions in Rust for python in order to speed python... that's my motivation!