Why Safe Programming Matters and Why Rust is the Way Forward

Explore the importance of safe programming and the potential of Rust as a secure, high-performance language in this FOSDEM'22 conference talk. Delve into memory safety issues, common security vulnerabilities, and how Rust addresses these concerns. Learn about Rust's key features, including ownership and borrowing, zero-cost abstractions, and advanced generics. Examine the language's strengths, weaknesses, and its potential as a general-purpose programming language. Compare Rust with other popular languages and understand its impact on performance, memory usage, and power consumption. Gain insights into the Rust community, ecosystem, and tooling while considering the trade-offs between high-level and low-level language approaches.