Twin Cities Software Symposium
March 6 - 8, 2020
Modern Software : Rust
Saturday - Mar 7 3:15 PM CST - WASHINGTON
Our industry never stops changing, but sometimes those changes are trivia and fluffy. Sometimes they are fundamental and enduring. This series is going to highlight some of the most important trends happening in the hardware, software, data and architecture spaces.
Rust has quickly become an incredibly popular language with exceptional tooling, documentation and a renowned community that welcomes and helps those who are new. It is intended as a systems programming such as C/C++ but has modern functional capabilities and intentionally-designed safety features.
It is for these reasons that large companies are starting to embrace Rust more than ever.
Modern software developers need to understand modern languages that change the game.
We will cover:
- Getting set up with Rust toolchains
- The Rust memory model
- Common Gotchas
- Generics
- Functional Programming
- Pattern Matching
Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting
About Brian Sletten
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.