[PLUG] THURSDAY: Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rust

[Michael Dexter]

Happy New Year Everyone?

Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement

Who: Jim Blandy
What: Rust
Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)
When: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live

Rust is meant to compete with C and C++ in performance, but also provide 
memory safety. Someone has written a small kernel in Rust.

Rust is only attractive to JavaScript / Python types when they run into 
a problem where memory consumption or processor consumption is a real 
limiting factor. Then, it's much easier for them to transition into Rust 
than C/C++, but Rust gives them the performance they need.

Some Rust killer apps:

- Mozilla's experimental browser engine, Servo (which outperforms 
Firefox on a single core, and destroys it when running on four cores);
- Tilde's Skylight profiling system for Rails apps, which uses Rust to 
handle the voluminous data produced by running apps:
http://www.tilde.io/skylight/

- OpenDNS, which is again using Rust to handle large amounts of data in 
real time:

https://labs.opendns.com/2013/10/04/zeromq-helping-us-block-malicious-domains/


Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250469452

Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. after the meeting.

Rideshares Available

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PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its 
mailing lists or at its meetings.

See you there!

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer