What we’re about
Rust Dortmund (recordings available on YouTube) is a local meetup for individuals working with Rust or eager to learn the Language. We welcome beginners, students, and seasoned developers from all fields. Most attendees are bilingual in English and German.
Rust is a young, multi-purpose programming language. It combines the freedom of C/C++ with better tooling than in the TypeScript and Python stack, and memory safety, plus data-race protection, which is checked at compile time.
To highlight its multi-purpose nature, Rust is used for web backends, runs parts of the AWS infrastructure, has become part of the Linux and Windows kernels, and is finding increasing adoption in industries such as automotive and aerospace.
We encourage you to nerd out and showcase your projects, give talks to each other exploring the constantly evolving Rust Ecosystem, and are certain you'll have exciting chats.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Rust Dortmund Meetup - Teach and Hackviadee Unternehmensberatung AG, Dortmund
Join us for the next Rust Dortmund Meetup! This event will bring together Rust enthusiasts for an evening of learning, collaboration, and community building.
Rust is a language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software, and we want to channel this energy in the Ruhr area. We’re open to beginners and skilled developers alike, fostering a regional community that supports each other in working with and learning Rust. Whether you’re into systems programming, embedded applications, or web development, Rust’s multi-paradigm nature has something for everyone.
Location
Viadee Unternehmensberatung
Sebrathweg 7, 44149 DortmundPreliminary Agenda
18:00 Doors open
18:30 Rust as a modern language in the unofficial Signal client Whisperfish by Thorsten Mindrup
19:00 Intro Talk: Modern Frontends with Rust & WebAssembly in a Typescript World by Jan Vaorin
19:30 Workshop: Rust as an alternative to React and Angular by Jan Vaorin
21:00 End We’ll wrap up at 21:00, but the conversation doesn’t have to end there—stay tuned for updates on the venue, agenda, and more!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.
