Introduction to Rust LPW 2017

A talk I gave for London Perl Workshop 2017: http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2017/

1. An Introduction to Rust Mark Sta Ana @booyaa github.com/booyaa booyaa.wtf
2. Introduction
3. What’s Rust?
4. Systems Programming
5. Blazingly Fast
6. Time (secs) Benchmark / Language Rust C (gcc) reverse-complement 0.37 0.48 pidigits 1.74 1.74 k-nucleotide 5.21 6.67 fasta 1.49 1.32 spectral-norm 2.31 2.00 Source: The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
7. Performance Source: Rust Perf Site (perf.rust-lang.org)
8. Safety
9. Memory Safety
10. Memory Safety
11. Memory Safety
12. Installing Rust
13. rustup.rs
14. Visual Studio Code
15. Rust Language Service
16. Learning
17. intorust.com
18. The Rust Book
19. rustup doc —book
20. community.rs
21. Who’s Using Rust?
22. rust-lang.org/friends.html
23. Are We X Yet?
24. Calling Rust from Perl
25. New crate
26. New crate
27. Cargo.toml
28. Testing
29. Functions
30. Functions
31. FFI 1
32. FFI 2
33. FFI 3
34. FFI 4
36. Perl 1
37. Perl 2
38. Perl 3
39. bit.ly/rustyperl
40. FIN
41. References bit.ly/rust-lpw2017