We went to Utrecht!

Our rust developers left Vienna by night train to reach Amersfoort with a final transfer to Utrecht, Netherlands. RustWeek is organized by the very active community at RustNL and the event took place in the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs cinema. The venue was particularly well-adjusted for the 800 attendees of the conference since the talks took place inside a large cinema. In three parallel tracks, talks between 20 and 35 minutes related to the rust programming language were given. Two examples were a talk ”Healthy Data, Rusty Code: Epidemiology Meets Modern Systems Programming” by Caroline Morton about organizing epidemiological data about pneumonic symptoms using rust and “Graviola: fast, high-assurance cryptography for Rust” by Joe Birr-Pixton about his implementation for cryptographic primitives en par with aws-lc-rs, ring, RustCrypto, and Dalek.

In other sessions, live recordings of podcasts happened, discussions and presentations were made at project booths, and the conference included the live release of rust version 1.87. Our fragmentix developers internally discussed ref keyword changes (RFC 2005), speedups through SIMD instructions, and the secret type proposal (RFC of issue 2859) during the week. The latter proposal would provide rust developers novel means for strengthening the security against hardware attacks not available in other programming languages yet.

See you next year RustWeek!