Rust - Hack Without Fear

Explore Rust's innovative approach to systems programming in this conference talk from C++Now 2017. Learn how Rust achieves memory safety without garbage collection, concurrency without data races, and abstraction without overhead through its core concept of ownership. Discover how Rust scales to large codebases and enables aggressive parallelization and optimizations. Gain insights into Rust's type system, core features, and its integration into Firefox. Delve into topics such as borrowing, traits, parallel quicksort, and the Rayon join pattern. Examine statistics on unsafe code usage and understand Rust's paradigms for production environments. Presented by Niko Matsakis, a senior researcher at Mozilla and Rust core team member, this talk offers a comprehensive overview of Rust's capabilities and its potential to revolutionize systems programming.