InfoQ Homepage Presentations Rust: Unlocking Systems Programming
Rust: Unlocking Systems Programming
52:48
Summary
Aaron Turon explains Rust's core notion of “ownership” and shows how Rust uses it to guarantee thread safety, amongst other things. He also talks about how Rust goes beyond addressing the pitfalls of C++ to do something even more exciting: unlock a new generation of systems programmers by providing a safe, high-level experience -- while never compromising on performance.
Bio
Aaron Turon manages the Rust team at Mozilla Research. His background is in low-level concurrency and programming language design.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Feb 07, 2016