LDN Talks June 2019
Details
Agenda:
• Welcome & Networking
• News and Announcements
• Speaker: Gargi Sharma - SYSCALLS for Rustaceans.
• Speaker: Diogo Sousa - Introducing The Archery Crate.
• Speaker: Kornel Lesinski - Why Rust has Two String types.
• Speaker: Sven Sauleau - WebAssembly The Next Big Platform.
We're being hosted by Cloudflare at their offices near Westminster Tube Station.
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Gargi Sharma will be giving an in depth break-down on Syscalls in Rust. This talk explains what syscalls are, how they work, how you can track them using strace and how you can write your own syscall tracer (strace) in Rust.
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Diogo Sousa will give us an introduction to the archery crate which he wrote for abstracting away from the atomicity of ref count pointers.
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Sven Sauleau will be giving a talk titled; WebAssembly The Next Big Platform. He will demonstrate how you can write parts of your JavaScript application using Rust and related tools. To complete the demonstration, the code will be deployed on Cloudflare's serverless platform.
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Kornel Lesinski will be breaking down why Rust has two string types in relation to C being dynamically typed.
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LDN Talks June 2019