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🙋 Who develops in C or C++?

🙋 Who uses software (libraries) that are built in C or C++?

1. Memory Safety:

• Rust was built to fix this.
• Ownership and borrowing system.
• RIP null pointer dereferences and buffer overflows.

🙋 Who developes in Java, Python, C# or Ruby?

2. Speed:

• Rust was built to fix this.
• Zero-cost abstractions.
• Low-level control.
• No Garbage Collector

🙋 Who developes software that is used concurrently?

🙋 HTTP backends?

3. Fearless concurrency:

• Rust wasn’t built to fix this. It came for free.
• Ownership system.
• Lightweight threads. First class citizen.
• No Garbage Collector.

🙋 Who uses typescript over Javascript?

🙋 Who uses type hints in Python or PHP?

4. Type System:

• Rust’s type system is powerful and expressive.
• More precise and correct programs.
• The world is moving there.

🙋 Who deploys their software weekly?

🙋 Who uses^D^Dfights docker regularly?

🙋 Who runs software on different platforms (dev on macOS, run on linux counts!)

5. Cross-platform support

• Compile to Windows, macOS, Linux, and many embedded systems out of the box.
• LLVM: targets many platform
• Statically linked by default: build, copy, done; CI config is tiny, cargo has it all.

🙋 Who uses third party libraries?

🙋 Who is afraid of third party libraries?

6. Package manager:

• Built-in package manager called Cargo.
• Huge ecosystem of third party libraries.
• ___ Left-pad is standardlib.

🙋 Who has ever “rewritten from scratch” because every expert left?

🙋 Who has to ask other programmers for help?

7. Community

• Rust is popular: 2022: 7th year voted as the most loved language.
• 2022: Most wanted, lands ahead of python.
• All the “big guns” went all-in: Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Dropbox, etc.
• And Mozilla, where it came from.

🙋 Who uses an IDE (and, yes, Vim and Emacs can be IDEs)

🙋 Who writes COBOL (and where did you park your Bently?)

8. Tooling

• Guarantees to run today. And in 10 years.
• Excellent tooling.
• LSP: Rust-analyzer, code completion, syntax highlighting, more - the best across the board.
• Cargo, Formatter, Linter, Clippy.

🙋 Who knows what the following means:

• TypeError: Super constructor null of Foo is not a constructor

🙋 But who knows what the following means:

9. Documentation

• Comprehensive, well-written.
• Awesome and helpful compiler errors.
• Great books. Great tutorials. Many free.

🙋 10. What did I miss?