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Fri, November 6 at 5:30 AM - 9:30 AM GMT+5:30BackEnd
Rust has quickly become an incredibly popular language with exceptional tooling, documentation and a renowned community that welcomes and helps those who are new. It is intended as a systems programming such as C/C++ but has modern functional capabilities and intentionally-designed safety features.
While it has mostly been in use for open source projects so far, it is quickly becoming important to initiatives at Apple, Microsoft and other companies so it is a great time to learn how it is different and how it allows you to convert run time errors to compile time errors.
It does have a steep learning curve, however, so we will walk through some of the common early gotchas and help you quickly become proficient in this popular and powerful new language finding its way into all manner of software development.
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Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
