Introduction to Rust LPW 2017

A talk I gave for London Perl Workshop 2017: http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2017/

Transcript

1. An Introduction to Rust
   Mark Sta Ana
   @booyaa
   github.com/booyaa
   booyaa.wtf
   

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2. Introduction
   

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3. What’s Rust?
   

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4. Systems Programming
   

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5. Blazingly Fast
   

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6. Time (secs)
   Benchmark / Language Rust C (gcc)
   reverse-complement 0.37 0.48
   pidigits 1.74 1.74
   k-nucleotide 5.21 6.67
   fasta 1.49 1.32
   spectral-norm 2.31 2.00
   Source: The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
   

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7. Performance
   Source: Rust Perf Site (perf.rust-lang.org)
   

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8. Safety
   

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9. Memory Safety
   

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10. Memory Safety
    

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11. Memory Safety
    

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12. Installing Rust
    

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13. rustup.rs
    

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14. Visual Studio Code
    

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15. Rust Language Service
    

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16. Learning
    

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17. intorust.com
    

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18. The Rust Book
    

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19. rustup doc —book
    

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20. community.rs
    

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21. Who’s Using Rust?
    

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22. rust-lang.org/friends.html
    

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23. Are We X Yet?
    

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24. Calling Rust from Perl
    

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25. New crate
    

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26. New crate
    

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27. Cargo.toml
    

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28. Testing
    

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29. Functions
    

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30. Functions
    

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31. FFI 1
    

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32. FFI 2
    

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33. FFI 3
    

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34. FFI 4
    

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36. Perl 1
    

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37. Perl 2
    

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38. Perl 3
    

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39. bit.ly/rustyperl
    

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40. FIN
    

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41. References
    bit.ly/rust-lpw2017
    

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