Bucharest FP #49 — Rust and Functional Programming in Practice

Hi, everyone!

Last time we had a meetup focused on Rust, four years ago, the language was quite experimental and few ventured to use it for real-world projects. Times have changed, though.

In the next presentation meetup, Alex Macovei will show us how he employs Rust at his day job.

# Alex Macovei — Rust and Functional Programming in Practice

## ABSTRACT

Rust is a fairly new language, with a focus on systems programming, and also a solid functional lineage. It enables writing zero overhead, high performance, but also safe and high level functional code, all at the same time.

In this talk we will be looking at some of the more unique features of Rust, as well as demoing some examples of the power of using a functional approach in the systems programming space.

## BIOGRAPHY

Alex has been doing C++ for several years, but slowly switched to Rust and more functional approaches. He has a few things to share about Rust, which he has used for multiple things, from low level networking protocols to open source applications.

# Call for Talks

If you had an A-HA moment, small or big, while using a functional language or approach to solve a problem dear to your heart and you would also be willing to share your experiences with the group, please send me or Vlad a private message on Meetup and maybe we can schedule a meetup.

If you're anxious about speaking to an unknown public audience, we're willing to restrict the number of participants to a number you're comfortable with ;) Not joking!

PS: Meanwhile, don't forget about our ongoing Haskell Book Study Group!