Rust in May: Rust for Starters, Part 2

Rust Cologne is a monthly meetup dealing with everything Rust.
We'll be talking about basic language features, such as data structures, error handling, crates and modules. This will be very beginner friendly.

(The meetup will likely be held in German but we'll switch to English if needed.)

Dear Rustacean,

you are hereby warmly invited to join the next Rust Cologne meetup. Whether you want to speed up your python code, write a web service, need interop with your C++-codebase, cross-compile for a microcontroller, write an emulator, … we've got you covered!

We commonly open up with a brief summary of noteworthy changes in the Rust ecosystem. Be it updates to the language itself, public events, its impact on other projects and languages, …

In the main part we'll do some live coding around basic language features such as defining our own types, enums, error handling, traits, importing crates and using modules to structure your code. If you want to actively participate, make sure to bring a laptop; ideally with a pre-installed IDE and rust toolchain. There will be some time before the official part starts, where we can help you to get things up and running.

As usual, the remaining time is about whatever you want to talk about!

Always wanted to know why Rust is harder to learn than other popular languages or why it lacks a certain feature? When is it appropriate to rewrite a project in Rust? Is the compiler really that slow and are the binaries really that big? Do all those safety guarantees have an impact on the performance? Fetch a drink and let's find out.

See you soon!

Yours,
Florian and Kai

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If you have a topic you'd like to talk about, please let us know in advance. This way we can make sure there's a time-slot for you and maybe announce it officially. Thank you.