Dan Callahan - My Python's a little Rust-y

Rust is a new systems programming language from Mozilla that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance... and it plays nice with ctypes! Come learn how you can call Rust functions from Python code and finally say goodbye to hacking C!

https://us.pycon.org/2015/schedule/presentation/411/

Transcript

1. My Python’s a Little Rusty Dan Callahan · dcallahan@mozilla.com · @callahad
2. The Big Lie “Python’s fast enough, and I can always write a C extension.” But it’s not, and we never do.
3. Why don’t we write C? 1. Other people did it for us.
4. Lines of C/C++ in Projects Project # Lines % CPython 3.5.0a2 399,387 43% NumPy 1.9.2 166,034 62% Pillow 2.7.0 22,669 52% MarkupSafe 0.23 178 21%
5. We’re standing on their shoulders And so are they.
6. 2. Writing C is scary.
7. Memory management is hard. Much like the video at youtube.com/watch?v=718fskG2n34 C has no safety belts.
8. Heartbleed Ghost CVE-2015-0080 I’m not smarter than the glibc or openssl devs.
9. But what if you need to?
10. The Dream C’s Performance, Portability, and Embeddability. With guaranteed safety.
11. Rust.
12. Stack vs. Heap
13. Stack Heap Fast but tiny Slow but huge Function locals Globals Managed by CPU Unmanaged Only small values of known, fixed size can go on the stack. Growable things like vectors must go on the heap.
14. Managed vs unmanaged
19. Ownership
36. Enforced Statically at Compile Time No dangling pointers No use after free vulnerabilities No pointer arithmetic No null pointer dereferencing This is a “Zero-Cost Abstraction.”
37. Mutability Demos!
40. Python FFI Demos!
41. Learn More rust-lang.org
42. Questions? @callahad dcallahan@mozilla.com github.com/callahad/pycon2015-rust rust-lang.org