Rust: Cargo Cult?
Victor Ciura
14:45-15:05, Thursday, 3rd April 2025
"Let's rewrite it in Rust" is no longer a party joke. It's happening!
Let me share a couple of stories of learning, appreciating and rewriting stuff in Rust. How we came to love 🦀 Ferris: cargo cult or real need?
What is it like to come to Rust from two very different directions: C++ and C#? What are the gaps, the needs, the gems and the tools you should know about? Here's a real journey and the various experiments leading up towards the success stories at Microsoft.
What have we learned and can bring back to day-to-day C++?
Want to compare notes? Let's chat.
Let me share a couple of stories of learning, appreciating and rewriting stuff in Rust. How we came to love 🦀 Ferris: cargo cult or real need?
What is it like to come to Rust from two very different directions: C++ and C#? What are the gaps, the needs, the gems and the tools you should know about? Here's a real journey and the various experiments leading up towards the success stories at Microsoft.
What have we learned and can bring back to day-to-day C++?
Want to compare notes? Let's chat.
Victor Ciura
Victor Ciura is a Principal Engineer on the Rust team in Microsoft DevDiv, building the compiler toolchain and libraries needed for the broader 🦀Oxidizer effort across the organization and Rust open-source community.
Spent the last 20+ years doing systems programming in C++ on various teams, such as: Visual C++ (DevDiv), Advanced Installer, Clang Power Tools.
He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures & workshops on algorithms and optimization techniques, using modern C++, Rust, Haskell.
More details: https://ciura.ro & linkedin.com/in/victor-ciura