[ale] What I've Learned About Rust: 7/2/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

[David Ritchie]

Do these meetings get recorded?

On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 03:12 Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Where: GoLUG Online: https://meet.jit.si/golug
> When: Wednesday, 7/2/2025 7pm sharp Eastern Daylight time
>       Arrive 15 minutes early for Microphone check & discussion
> Who: Steve Litt, Troubleshooter, Developer, Tech Writer
> What: What I've Learned About Rust
>
> Rust is a cross platform Open Source language born in 2012, and
> steadily gaining popularity every year. Considering that Haskell was
> born in 1990, C sharp was born in 2000, and GoLang was born in 2009,
> this makes Rust a very modern language.
>
> Rust's priorities are safety, safety and safety. You need to try really
> hard to write insecure code in Rust. Once compiled, it runs fairly
> fast. It's the second of two languages (other one is C) allowed to
> be used in the Linux kernel.
>
> Like all safety first languages (Ada for instance), the compiler gets
> in your way a lot, and when you're at my stage it's frustrating. But
> it's nice that nobody's going to buffer-overrun my Rust code. And that
> compiler that frustrates you: It also has very good error messages with
> rustc links to get you the right info to guide you.
>
> From what I hear, there are few Rust jobs and even fewer rust
> development competitors, so salaries are good and getting better every
> year.
>
> I couldn't get a Rust expert to give this talk so I did the next best
> thing: I'm learning Rust myself and will give a presentation on what
> I've learned so far:
>
> * Rust Terminology
> * Rust Mindset
> * Hello World
> * Hello World using Cargo
> * File reading program with error handling
> * String length comparison program
> * OOP in Rust
>
> You won't learn enough Rust in this 90 to 120 minute presentation to go
> out and get a Rust job, but you WILL learn:
>
> * Whether you want to learn Rust
> * Enough material to learn via ChatGPT and web searches
> * Enough to get along on the ##rust IRC channel if you're careful
> * Terminology that once you can really code rust, you'll interview
>   credibly
> * Enough to network credibly
> * Enough to detect a know nothing walking acronym dispenser (WAD)
>
> I hope to see you there.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> GoLUG Publicity Coordinator
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