Rust Meetup Linz - 20th Edition

Rust Meetup Linz, No. 20!

Hello, fellow Rustaceans, and welcome to our 20th Rust Meetup. In this month's meetup, we will learn about the status of Rust for Linux. A big THANK YOU goes to all our guest speakers!

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📅 Schedule

📣 Welcome and Introduction
Rust Linz Organizers
17:30 (5:30pm CET)

We will start the night with the usual welcome round and some community news.

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📣 Rust for Linux: Status and Wishlist
by Miguel Ojeda, Wedson Almeida Filho
17:40 (5:40pm CET)

Rust for Linux is a project that aims to bring Rust support to the Linux kernel as a first-class language. This means providing support for writing kernel modules in Rust, such as drivers or filesystems, with as little unsafe code as possible.

This session will briefly explain how the Rust support works in the kernel and will give an update on the status of the project, as well as what is planned for the near future. It will also show a wishlist of Rust features that could help the project.

ℹ️ About Miguel
Miguel is a software engineer that maintains the Rust for Linux effort, as well as the auxdisplay, compiler attributes, and clang-format trees. He also participates in the ISO C committee, with an interest in UB and memory-safety topics. Previously, Miguel was a Staff Member at CERN in the Beams department and a Fellow in the Physics department.

ℹ️ About Wedson
Wedson is a software engineer that maintains the Rust for Linux effort; he is currently part of the Android platform security team at Google. For the past 19+ years, he has worked on kernels, bootloaders, hypervisors, etc. at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

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📣 A Brief Introduction Into WAGI
by Stefan Baumgartner and Rainer Stropek
18:30 (6:30pm CET)

CGI is back! The experimental WAGI project allows you to write HTTP handlers as WebAssembly binaries. And the best thing: You don't need any libraries for it.

Stefan and Rainer experimented with WAGI. They would like to present a brief intro to this project consisting of some architectural background and Rust sample code.

ℹ️ About Stefan Baumgartner and Rainer Stropek
Stefan and Rainer are the founders and moderators of the Rust Linz meetup. Both have many years of practical experience in full-stack development and cloud computing.

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We want to say a big THANK YOU to Microsoft for supporting the Rust Linz meetup 👏!

Do you want to deliver a talk at the Rust meetup Linz? Great! Please enter your suggested topic in Sessionize at https://sessionize.com/rust-linz/.