Rust Meetup Linz - 5th Edition

Welcome to the 5TH EDITION of the RUST MEETUP LINZ. As always, we tried to find a good mix of topics for Rust beginners as well as experienced Rust coders. Hopefully, many of you find the content interesting and join us in this virtual meetup.

We will start this meeting with two short talks of two of our very own organizers Stefan Baumgartner and Rainer Stropek. Stefan will do a lightning talk where he shares his approach for learning and exercising Rust. Rainer has played with Rust's Rocket framework and will speak about his experiences. Both sessions are targeted at people who are rather new to Rust.

Our guest speaker this time is Stefan Schindler. Stefan has been working with Rust since 2015, is a member of the RustFest Project (https://rustfest.global/) and the maintainer of the threadpool and sudo crate and many others.

SCHEDULE 📅 for the meetup on December 17th:

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. 17:40 = 5:40pm):
THE EXERCIST (by STEFAN BAUMGARTNER)

Do you want to know a new programming language and don't know where to start? Do you have a certain project in mind but are scared about all the concepts you have to pick up to reach your goal? Going back to basic algorithms and Programming 101 exercises can help a lot! I want to show you exercism.io, a platform that helped me a lot in learning Rust. Maybe it's the right platform for you, too!

Next up (approx 17:55 = 5:55pm):
WEB APIs WITH RUST ROCKET (by RAINER STROPEK)

Is Rust only relevant for systems programming? Do you need platforms like Go or Node.js to build great web APIs? Rainer has been building cloud-based distributed systems for many years and for this Rust Linz meetup he looked into the Rocket framework. He will give a short introduction and compare it to frameworks he knows from other programming languages.

Next up (approx 18:30 = 6:30pm):
ATOMIC COUNTERS AND CACHELINES (by STEFAN SCHINDLER)

How do atomic counters and cache lines interact with each other and why do they affect the performance of my programs?