RustConf 2016 Talks

Opening Keynote by Aaron Turon and Niko Matsakis photo by: [@eigenrick](https://twitter.com/eigenrick) 175 new features since 1.0 New features underway Specialization impl Trait The ? operator Macro 1.1 offers custom derive Compiler internals redesigned Mir in orbit Dynamic drop flags Incremental comp Error messages Challenges in the Rust survey 1 in 4 Learning curve (First 3 weeks is rough) 1 in 7 More libraries 1 in 9 “Maturity” 1 in 19 IDEs 1 in 20 Compiler Perf Speed and reliability are core values of rust, but for 2017, productivity should as well.

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These are raw notes taken at RustConf during the “Traits and Threads” workshop put on by Aaron Turon All Exercises Methods are function that accept self &self.items == &(self.items) where the borrow (&) is for the item, not for self. Structs have no default value, requires creating all values. mut as mute not like a mixed breed dog Abstraction: The Plan Generics Traits As Interfaces For Code Resuse For Perator Overloading Trait Objects Traits are rusts interfaces.

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It started with Muxed. I was excited to get a working first build, but despite my development machine being a MacBook Air, I develop most in VM’s using vagrant. My native builds were all linux based. It would be easy enough to move the code to an OSX machine and compile there but I do not like build tools on my native machine. And that would simply be too easy.

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DelayedJob has always been a great “hit the ground running” background task runner for ruby. It is simple to setup, easy to use and can more than carry its own weight in tasks. Don’t know what a backround runner does or why you would use one? I will not delve into why you need one but you can check out a summary here: Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails.

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Note: This post is an un-contexualized, un-edited, & un-proofed bunch of notes taken during Cascadia Ruby 2014. T.J. Schuck 80,000 Plaintext Passwords: An Open Source Love Story in Three Acts John the Ripper password cracker. hashcat. Expensive key schedule blowfish. eksblowfish. BCrypt BCrypt dollar signs are delimieters, hash on far right. Salt on left. 2(abxy) means bcrypt 10 = cost $ 2a $ 10 $ salt $ hash 12 to 13 range for bcrypt cost.

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Note: This post is an un-contexualized, un-edited, & un-proofed bunch of notes taken during Cascadia Ruby 2014. John Hyland Be Awesome By Being Boring “standard is better then better” Nobody know how it works yet. Docker apis changed. No standard uusage pattern. Security wild card. Protocol Buffer version of your performance critical endpoints. SRV Records. Davy Stevenson The Science of Success Jarvis March (Gift wrapping Algorithm.) Monotone Algorithm.

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Brian Pearce

Software Engineer, Endurance Cyclist,
Rubiest, and Rustacean

Software Engineer

Barcelona, Spain