Rust as a Support Language

Explore the potential of Rust as a support language in this 56-minute Devoxx conference talk. Discover how Rust, designed for safe memory manipulation, can replace C and C++ in low-level, performance-oriented code. Learn various techniques for rewriting parts of projects in Rust and understand the benefits it brings to your own projects. Delve into topics such as Rust's design, syntax, compiler, and references. Examine real-world examples, including an inverted index implementation, Android application development, and bug fixes in Java. Gain insights into Rust's learning curve, available libraries, and its growing ecosystem. Speaker Geoffroy Couprie, a security and quality assurance expert at Clever Cloud and researcher at VideoLAN, shares his expertise on leveraging Rust for improved safety and readability in system-level programming.