Agenda:
• Welcome & networking
• News and Announcements
• Main Speaker: Pierre Chevalier (Maidsafe) - Rust: Beyond the language, an ecosystem.
• Speaker: Jamie Brandon - Writing an Electron app in 100% native Rust
• Lightning Speaker: TBD
We're being hosted by Mozilla at their offices near London Bridge Station.
Pierre will give a talk on how they use Rust in production at Maidsafe:
Rust: Beyond the language, an ecosystem:
As a language, rust gives you safety, performance and high level abstractions. This is more than any other language can claim in 2018. This is reason enough to use rust in performance and security critical projects such as the SAFE Network.
By using rust to implement PARSEC, a novel consensus protocol many orders of magnitudes faster than the blockchain, we were reminded that beyond the language, the entire rust ecosystem conspires to making your projects successful.
In this talk, we will use our experience writing production code in rust to convey all the benefits we received from being part of this inclusive ecosystem. Beyond the compiler and the great toolchain that comes with it, we will share concrete examples of many different aspects of the wider rust environment that make it so enjoyable to write production code with confidence.
