Have you ever wanted lightning-fast code, without the segfaults and tedious boilerplate of C? Then come learn why so many Pythonistas are excited about Rust, a new language from Mozilla. After a short introduction to the language, we'll see how the Rust Python bindings let us easily write elegant, safe, and high-performance extension modules, hassle-free.
Samuel Cormier-Iijima is a senior engineer at SurveyMonkey. He previously co-founded Fluidware, which grew to 80 employees before being acquired in 2014. He is passionate about the web, cryptography, computer science and mathematics, and contributes to a number of Python and Rust open source projects. Samuel lives in Ottawa with his wife and cat and plays the keys in his band, Cloud City.
