Rust: Safe and Scalable Systems Programming

Speaker: Alex Crichton - Senior Research Engineer, Mozilla Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. Modern language features, such as closures, type inference, pattern matching, and trait-based generics, are supported in tandem with low-level features like zero-cost abstractions, efficient C bindings, and a minimal runtime. With the stable 1.0 release of the language in May 2015 Rust has seen widespread growth and adoption as well as