Nix Your Bugs & Rust Your Engines #3

Nix Your Bugs & Rust Your Engines is a new meetup for people in the Rhein-Neckar region that are interested in Rust (the programming language), Nix (the package manager), or NixOS (the Linux distribution).

It takes place at the Mathematikon in Heidelberg (Im Neuenheimer Feld 205) in room 2/103. All participants must adhere to our Code of Conduct.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email at nixrust@rheinneckar.events or contact us on Mastodon at @NixRust@rheinneckar.social. We also have a Matrix room: [#nixrust-hd:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#nixrust-hd:matrix.org).

Schedule (tentative):

• 18:00 - Open Doors
• 18:20 - Greeting
• 18:30 - Moritz Gutfleisch: Procedural Macros for Network Programming (and everything else)
• 19:30 - Nix lightning talks and Nix Q&A
• 20:00 - Networking and get together

Talk: Procedural Macros for Network Programming (and everything else)
by Moritz Gutfleisch

Procedural macros allow executing functions that produce Rust syntax at compile time. They allow for very sophisticated code generation and can drastically reduce boilerplate and redundancies. We'll look at how these macros can be used to make dissecting and handling network packets significantly more convenient to motivate them. Then, we'll learn how to write them and what tools the Rust ecosystem provides us to do so.

Nix lightning talks and Nix Q&A

For the Nix-part of the meetup, we will hear Nix-related lightning talks and answer questions and problems the meetup participants ran into when using Nix, or that prevent them from using Nix. No stupid questions, feel free to send them upfront by email to nixrust@rheinneckar.events. If you have a topic for a lightning talk in mind (between 5 and 10 minutes presentation time), send it by email as well. Presentation slides are optional but should preferably be sent upfront or brought on a flash drive so we don't have to spend time on switching laptops.