Growing with our users: How the Rust Project is reshaping our communication by Jack Huey and Niko Matsakis.
Over the past fifteen years, Rust has grown from a small project used by Mozilla and few others, to being used by millions of developers. But our communication patterns haven't scaled well with that growth. In this talk, we'll present some of the initiatives that the Rust Project is undertaking, and participating in, in order to reshape the way we listen to and collaborate with our users.
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Rust has moved past the initial ‘being adopted’ stage and it’s time to talk about what’s next. Over the last year, these and other leaders within the Rust project have been talking to Rust users—and non-Rust users!—to find answers to some big questions: What do people love about Rust? What do they hate? And what is Rust good for, anyway? This talk shares what is being discovered how this research is being approached, and how these insights can help shape Rust’s future alongside the RFC and project goals processes.
Keynote: Rust is poised to grow rapidly, if we keep our eyes on the prize
Speaker: Niko Matsakis — Co-lead, Rust Language Design Team | Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon
Niko Matsakis opens Rust India 2026 with a keynote on where Rust stands today and where it's headed.
Rust's reliability, efficiency, and productivity make it a natural fit for the hardest problems in systems engineering — large-scale networked applications, resource-constrained embedded development, and everywhere in between. Teams come to Rust for help with one problem, and end up wanting to use it everywhere. But growth brings its own risks.
In this keynote, Niko reflects on what has made Rust successful, what threats could slow that momentum, and what the community needs to keep its eyes on to stay on the right path.
Niko Matsakis is one of the original designers of the Rust language, co-leads the Rust Language Design Team, and has been shaping Rust's direction for over a decade.
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Niko Matsakis -- Over the last few months the Rust Vision Doc project group has been conducting interviews of folks using Rust, Rust project maintainers, and global Rust interest groups. Come and hear about the data we’ve gathered thus far and help us figure out the next steps in the process!
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github: https://github.com/nikomatsakis
This talk was given at RustNL 2024, in Delft, The Netherlands.
Playlist of other talks from RustNL 2024: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Q1w7Ff68DBZZbJt3ie5MUoJV5v2HeA7
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We talk to people that are actively involved with building Rust about their work. What are the inner workings of the project? What's coming in the 2024 edition? Luca Palmieri will talk about those and other questions with our panelists.
🦀 *About Mara Bos* 🦀
Mara Bos (https://twitter.com/m_ou_se) has been a member of the Rust project since 2020, where she leads the Rust library team and is a member of the Rust leadership council. She wrote Rust Atomics and Locks and founded Fusion Engineering, a company making drone flight controllers in Rust.
🦀 *About Niko Matsakis* 🦀
Nicholas Matsakis (https://twitter.com/nikomatsakis) is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and lead of the open-source Rust language design team. He has worked on Rust since 2011, and led the design of its “secret sauce”, the borrow checker. He has played a number of other roles in Rust over the years, such as being a member of the Rust core team, the lead of the Rust compiler team, and helping to launch the Rust Foundation. Prior to working on Rust, he completed a PhD at ETH Zurich and did his undergraduate study at MIT.
🦀 *About Jonathan Pallant* 🦀
(https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster) Rust programmer since 2016. Member of the Rust Leadership Council. Co-founder of the Rust Embedded Working Group. Full-time Rust consultant and trainer. Part-time writer/designer of a home-brew open source Operating System in Rust and the open-source computer it runs on. Can be blamed for Rust support for: PS/2 Keyboards, SD Cards on microcontrollers, several RTOSes, the RP2040 microcontroller, the BeagleBoard X15, the Nordic nRF9160, and probably more I’ve forgotten.
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