Rust : Making Software Fast and Safe

New languages often carry an operational burden to deployment and involve tradeoffs of performance for safety. Rust has emerged as a powerful, popular, and increasingly widely-used language for all types of development. Come learn why Rust is entering the Linux kernel and Microsoft and Google are favoring it for new development over C++.

This Introduction to Rust will introduce the students to the various merits (and complexities) of this safe, fast and popular new programming language that is taking the world by storm. This
three day course will cover everything students from various backgrounds will need to get started as a successful Rust programmer.

Attendees will Learn about and how to:

• Understand the purpose and consequences of Rust's Memory model
• The concept of ownership and borrowing
• The robust and friendly toolchains
• Idiomatic Rust practices
• The basics of lifetimes
• The Rust Standard Library
• Generics and Traits
• The power of Pattern Matching

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.

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