Two Years of Rust
Felix Klock (@pnkfelix), Mozilla
(adapted from carols10cents blog post to blog.rust-lang.org) space: next slide; esc: overview; arrows navigate
Data
Since Rust's first birthday:
- 10,800 commits by 663 contributors
- 4,405 new crates published
- 48 new companies running Rust in production
- Four conferences so far this year (lots of online video) ...
- ... three more conferences still to come: RustConf 2017 (Portland OR, USA), RustFest Fall 2017 (Zurich, Switzerland), Rust Belt Rust 2017 (Columbus OH, USA)
- (for other stats see blog post)
Production Use
- Rust in production: Friends of Rust;
rustjobs.rs
- Dropbox: Magic Pocket (see Wired article); Rust in Windows desktop client (see also
@jamwt air mozilla talk)
- Mozilla: Servo nightlies; Oxidation initiated w/ Firefox 48; Project Quantum
- GNOME: from experiments in October 2016 to hackfest in March 2017
- npm: Using Rust to serve JS packages (see
@ag_dubs talk at RustFest Spring 2017)
Roadmap
Goals for 2017:
Lower learning curve
Pleasant edit-compile-debug cycle
Basic but solid IDE experience
High quality crates and crate accessibility
Support writing robust, high-scale servers
Integrate into large build systems
Provide community-based mentoring at all levels
Lower Learning Curve
match and ownership ergonomics- non-lexical lifetimes
- lifetime elision improvements
- and many more ideas in flight!
Edit-Compile-Debug Cycle
- Incremental compilation; try it out on Nightly with
CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1 cargo <command>
- Improved full compilation times; better by 5-10% on average
perf.rust-lang.org
Mentoring at all levels
- RustBridge for getting started with Rust
- Interns via Outreachy and GSoC
- Identification of low-committment, high-impact tasks; e.g. improved error messages
- Language Team Shepherds
- Growth of number and size of subteams; more opportunities to step into leadership roles
Happy 2nd Birthday Rust
Thank you to every member of our awesome community!