Rust in July: Vecs and Strings and Slices, Oh My!

Rust Cologne is a monthly meetup dealing with everything Rust.
This month we're diving into Rust's contiguous collection types, like arrays, Vecs, Strings and the various slices.

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

Dear Rustacean,

you are hereby warmly invited to join the next Rust Cologne meetup. 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're diving into Rust's contiguous collection types. If you've ever wondered when to use an array, a slice, a Vec, a String, or a str, you're not alone. We'll bring some structure to this seemingly chaotic family of types, explore the relationships between owned and borrowed data, and see how Rust's design balances ergonomics, performance, and correctness.

As usual, the remaining time is about whatever you want 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 out.

See you soon!

Yours,
Kai and Florian

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If you have a topic you'd like to talk about, please let us know in advance. This way we can make sure there's a time-slot for you and maybe announce it officially. Thank you.