Rust in August: Intro to Rust and Dependency Tooling

(The meetup will likely be held in German but we'll switch to English if needed.)

Dear Rustacean,

our next Meetup will be on Wednesday 2025-08-06, 19:15 CEST.

You're new to Rust, tried it out with some private projects or are already working professionally with it for years? You're in good company! Whether you want to speed up your python code, write a web service, need interop with your C++-codebase, cross-compile for a microcontroller, write an emulator, … we've got you covered!

We commonly open up with a brief summary of noteworthy changes in the Rust ecosystem. Be it updates to the language itself, public events, its impact on other projects and languages, …

This month we have two great talks for you, both suitable for beginners.
First Florian will give a general introduction into the language, aimed at people completely new to the language. It will give an insight into the guarantees the language provides beyond other memory safe languages.
Following that Jan will introduce a tool called TangleGuard. It provides a way to define the fundamental structure of your Rust codebase to keep the amount of maintenance work low. He'll walk you through some general concepts of software architecture first and then show the tool in action. We'll see how layers and dependency rules can be added within a Rust project by using some open source projects as examples.

As usual, any remaining time is open for whatever you'd like to talk about!
Always wanted to know why Rust is harder to learn than other popular languages or why it lacks a certain feature? When is it appropriate to rewrite a project in Rust? Is the compiler really that slow and are the binaries really that big? Do all those safety guarantees have an impact on the performance? Fetch a drink and let's find it out.

See you soon!

Yours,
Kai and Florian