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The Language of Empathy

RustNL
RustWeek 35:36 2394 views

The Language of Empathy by Taylor Cramer. Late one night in January 2016, having spent hours in a university lab debugging seemingly intractable C++ bugs, I made the jump to Rust– a language that recognized my struggle. This empathy for the plight of systems programmers made Rust unique then, and it’s what makes the language invaluable now. Empathy is a core design philosophy, a technical constraint, and a primary reason why people love writing Rust. This talk explores the tangible impact empat

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Fine-Grained C++ Interop

Rust Foundation
RustConf 39:38 4202 views

Adopting Rust in large C++ projects presents a difficult choice: perform a costly, large-scale rewrite, or refactor code to accommodate the limitations of traditional interop solutions such as bindgen or cxx. This talk will discuss how high-fidelity Rust/C++ interoperability can offer a seamless path for gradual adoption using language and compiler extensions.