Hybrid event with Rust Dortmund!

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Welcome from Rust and Cpp Cardiff! All levels welcome!
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This week we are looking forward to another hybrid event with Rust Dortmund! If you are in the Dortmund area, we would highly recommend attending in person, but if you can't make it, then please come along online! We will join the Dortmund meetup, watching online together, discussing the talks, and joining in the Q&As.

Agenda
17:30 Rust as a modern language in the unofficial Signal client Whisperfish by Thorsten Mindrup
18:00 Intro Talk: Modern Frontends with Rust & WebAssembly in a Typescript World by Jan Vaorin
18:30 Workshop: Rust as an alternative to React and Angular by Jan Vaorin

Talk Details - Rust as a modern language in the unofficial Signal client Whisperfish
In an era where digital communication is omnipresent, protecting user privacy has become more important than ever. This talk explores the technical implementation of secure messaging on mobile platforms, using Whisperfish — an independent native Signal client for Sailfish OS — as a case study. Whisperfish is built entirely in Rust and leverages the Signal Protocol to ensure end-to-end encrypted communication with the Signal servers.

Talk Details: Modern Frontends with Rust & WebAssembly in a Typescript World
In a landscape dominated by JavaScript and TypeScript, Rust and WebAssembly (Wasm) are emerging as powerful allies for building high-performance, secure, and scalable web applications. This talk explores how Rust can complement modern frontend stacks and what this means for the future of web development. We'll dive into real-world use cases, tooling, and best practices and build our own frontend in the following workshop.

Workshop Details: Rust as an alternative to React and Angular
Discover how Rust can be a compelling alternative to traditional frontend frameworks like React and Angular. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a prebuilt Yew-based frontend project and explore its architecture, tooling, and capabilities.

Bio: Thorsten Mindrup
Thorsten has a degree in electrical engineering and has been developing software for over 25 years in various software development industries: automotive, automation, defence - navy ships, agricultural technology, research, and medical. In the programming languages C, C++, Java, Python and now Rust. He works as a software developer and software architect and in the role of lead software architect and product security engineer at the company Evident Scientific at Münster in Westphalia.

Bio: Jan Vaorin
Jan is a computer science master’s student at TU Dortmund University, where he mainly focus on cybersecurity, cloud security, databases, efficient data pipelines and DevSecOps / secure software development lifecycle. He has work experience at an IOT SaaS platform developer. In his free time he is always on the lookout for new things to explore with his Corgi or working on corgi.wiki . Also see his private projects.

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Recordings of previous meetups are available on youtube. We also have a discord server for chatting between meetups - message any of the meetup organizers for the discord link.
Look forward to seeing you there!