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PLUG: Portland's monthly, three-track open source conference!
Celebrating 20 years of hosting Portland's best open source and technology freedom speakers.
This month's topic To Be Announced
First Thursday: General Meeting at PSU
Third Tuesday: Advanced Topics at Free Geek
Third Sunday: Hands-on Clinic at Free Geek
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Who: Jim Blandy<br>
What: Rust<br>
Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)<br>
When: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at 7pm<br>
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom<br>
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/
Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. after the meeting.
Rideshares Available
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