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Rustconf 2016 – What was cool and what surprised me

138 points by andygrove 10y ago

steveklabnik 10y ago
All talks were recorded, we'll have them up at some point.
- klocksib 10y ago
  Is there a youtube channel or confreaks we can subscribe to so we can watch them when available?
  - steveklabnik 10y ago
    I am 99% sure that it was confreaks who did the recordings, but I'm not sure if there's something you can subscribe to. They'll be tweeted from @rustlang and @rustconf for sure as well as posted to the users' forum, and I can't imagine that /r/rust won't pick them up.
    - klocksib 10y ago
      Perfect, thanks!
  - adelarsq 10y ago
    Actually I'm creating a website for things like this for Rust. Will be available in a few weeks =)
Xylakant 10y ago
Let me use the opportunity to advertise the rustfest, Europes first rust conference in Berlin, this upcoming weekend. https://rustfest.eu https://rustfest.eu (I'm not part of the orga team, but affiliated)
pohl 10y ago
I was fortunate to be able to attend. Sometimes I feel like I'm just not built for conferences: I prefer solitude, and people usually go to conferences to confer. That said, this was an exceptional group of people to be among: smart, friendly, helpful, passionate, and accepting. I know it's been said before: the rust community at this stage of its evolution gets this right. I also attended the beginner and intermediate training on Friday, and I feel like this pushed me over the hump. Thank you, Steve and Aaron, for presenting the material so well. I even attended the tokio hackathon on Friday night to push myself out of my comfort zone. I wasn't able to contribute anything that night, but I spent some time troubleshooting a build problem in the tokio-line project, just for the sake of learning. I would recommend attending next year if you get the opportunity.
- jimktrains2 10y ago
  > That said, this was an exceptional group of people to be among: smart, friendly, helpful, passionate, and accepting. I know it's been said before: the rust community at this stage of its evolution gets this right. I wasn't at the conference, but I've seen the same thing online. I wonder if it's because we've all been humbled by the borrow checker _constantly_ it seems.
  - nnethercote 10y ago
    I'm pretty sure it's because Graydon established and enforced a positive culture from the very start -- backed up by a good Code of Conduct -- and everyone since has continued to do that.
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colemickens 10y ago
I haven't been to many tech conferences, but RustConf was hands down the best I've been to. Classy group of people. Smart, entertaining talks. I can't recommend it enough. There's no doubt in my mind that the quality and diversity of speakers, content, attendees and general atmosphere was due to community that has been curated. And I think that curation has been very intentional and has paid off. It was repeated numerous times that the Rust community is helpful and inviting... including IRC. (Thanks Steve, I think you're a powerful force in shaping the awesome, welcoming tone in the Rust community)
jeswin 10y ago
I apologize for being harsh here. But if you're submitting your own articles to HN, I think it might make sense for it to not read like an ad for your company. There is nothing technical in the article, not even links.
- klausa 10y ago
  I don't understand where the assumption that there must be something 'technical' in the post to 'deserve' a place on HN came from, but it's wrong.
  - bluejekyll 10y ago
    Agree. Even if it is promoting their own company, this is a great example of someone using new technology to profit. I get excited when I see this, even if I don't learn anything from the content.
JoshTriplett 10y ago
I was one of the presenters at RustConf this year. Despite being a new conference, the organizers did incredibly well; everything went as smoothly as any of the top tier of Open Source conferences. And of all the Open Source conferences I've been to, I found RustConf by far the most welcoming and energizing; great reflection on both the Rust community and the RustConf organizers. I've found this about Rust in general: despite being a very new community, it manages to come across as quite mature and established in many ways. For instance, the language's stability-marking infrastructure allows experimentation with new language features without requiring stable applications to build with a nightly compiler because key dependencies want nightly features. Many of the mistakes and missteps that I've seen in new communities, as they rediscover problems from other communities, seem to have been anticipated and avoided in the Rust community. RustConf was a reflection of that; despite being the first RustConf, it went as smoothly as any established conference that's been running for years.
- bluejekyll 10y ago
  Have you posted you content online? It was an excellent talk. Nice job!
  - JoshTriplett 10y ago
    > Have you posted you content online? The video should go up soon. I haven't posted the slides anywhere, but I should fix that. Ideally, I'd love to see all the slides posted on rustconf.com linked from the talks. > It was an excellent talk. Nice job! Thanks!
raphlinus 10y ago
I was also there as one of the presenters, and concur, it was a great experience. The strength of the community is absolutely one of the threads that ran throughout the conference. I've been involved in open source a long a long time and had sadly revised my expectations downward, but Rust is going a long way towards restoring my confidence. Kudos and thanks to the organizers!
pegasos1 10y ago
Agreed with my fellow co-speakers. It was humbling to be surround by such brilliant people. But it was also so inspiring to be a part of a community that takes pride in welcoming and empowering every developer, regardless of background.
tedmielczarek 10y ago
I don't attend many conferences, but I've been to a few and the quality of the speakers at RustConf was above and beyond any I've ever seen. Kudos to everyone that organized the event and spoke at it, it was a great experience!
__pid_t 10y ago
How does Rustconf support inclusivity like the Node.js conferences does?
- hak8or 10y ago
  What do you mean by inclusivity?
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    They're trying to troll by bringing up drama from a conference a little while ago.
- andrewchambers 10y ago
  I'm sure everyone is welcome. I care about your thoughts not the color of your skin or gender. I know you mean well but I want to avoid race/gender quotas. I hope that's not what you mean.
kibwen 10y ago
For those interested in more Rust conferences, RustFest is September 17-18 in Berlin (no idea if tickets are still available) and Rust Belt Rust is October 27-28 in Pittsburgh (tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rust-belt-rust-conference-registration-25729515674 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rust-belt-rust-conference-regis... ). Yours truly is giving one of the beginner tutorials at the latter, and I'll be handing out custom-machined rusty metal doodads to my attendees. :)
- llogiq 10y ago
  I'd really love to be there. My third child will probably be about 3 or 4 weeks old by that time, so I at least have good reason to miss out.
- Xylakant 10y ago
  Rustfest still has a few tickets left for sale from the late-bird batch.
solarengineer 10y ago
Is the webpage loading for anyone else? I'm being sent the Wordpress PHP code!
- amluto 10y ago
  I have the same problem. Oddly, even using archive.org sends me php code.
  - captaincrowbar 10y ago
    Me three. Tried it on Chrome/Windows and Safari/Mac, same breakage.
- Ar-Curunir 10y ago
  Same. Oh well.
- eyelidlessness 10y ago
  If only they'd written it in Rust...
- andygrove 10y ago
  Web site is down ... too much love for Rust :-) We're working on it ... check back soon!
- amluto 10y ago
  Fixed now.
bluejekyll 10y ago
There was something Julia Evans said at the end that really struck me as the key to Rust (I can't quote it) The language gives you the security to try something new, convinces you that a mere mortal (as opposed to a C expert) can write systems level programs without fear. This is an amazing feature of the language. It's democratizing what used to be exclusive to a low level community.
- mshenfield 10y ago
  Obligatory links to talk and HN comments: http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/11/rustconf-keynote/ http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/11/rustconf-keynote/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477211
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vatotemking 10y ago
Rust is an awesome community. They are patient and helpful to newbies. As oppose to the 2 other communities i know of, the rust community can handle criticisms maturely. Its so refreshing. Cheers to rust!

138 points by andygrove 10y ago

steveklabnik 10y ago

All talks were recorded, we'll have them up at some point.

klocksib 10y ago
Is there a youtube channel or confreaks we can subscribe to so we can watch them when available?
- steveklabnik 10y ago
  I am 99% sure that it was confreaks who did the recordings, but I'm not sure if there's something you can subscribe to. They'll be tweeted from @rustlang and @rustconf for sure as well as posted to the users' forum, and I can't imagine that /r/rust won't pick them up.
  - klocksib 10y ago
    Perfect, thanks!
- adelarsq 10y ago
  Actually I'm creating a website for things like this for Rust. Will be available in a few weeks =)

Xylakant 10y ago

Let me use the opportunity to advertise the rustfest, Europes first rust conference in Berlin, this upcoming weekend. https://rustfest.eu https://rustfest.eu (I'm not part of the orga team, but affiliated)

pohl 10y ago

I was fortunate to be able to attend. Sometimes I feel like I'm just not built for conferences: I prefer solitude, and people usually go to conferences to confer. That said, this was an exceptional group of people to be among: smart, friendly, helpful, passionate, and accepting. I know it's been said before: the rust community at this stage of its evolution gets this right. I also attended the beginner and intermediate training on Friday, and I feel like this pushed me over the hump. Thank you, Steve and Aaron, for presenting the material so well. I even attended the tokio hackathon on Friday night to push myself out of my comfort zone. I wasn't able to contribute anything that night, but I spent some time troubleshooting a build problem in the tokio-line project, just for the sake of learning. I would recommend attending next year if you get the opportunity.

jimktrains2 10y ago
> That said, this was an exceptional group of people to be among: smart, friendly, helpful, passionate, and accepting. I know it's been said before: the rust community at this stage of its evolution gets this right. I wasn't at the conference, but I've seen the same thing online. I wonder if it's because we've all been humbled by the borrow checker _constantly_ it seems.
- nnethercote 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure it's because Graydon established and enforced a positive culture from the very start -- backed up by a good Code of Conduct -- and everyone since has continued to do that.
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colemickens 10y ago

I haven't been to many tech conferences, but RustConf was hands down the best I've been to. Classy group of people. Smart, entertaining talks. I can't recommend it enough. There's no doubt in my mind that the quality and diversity of speakers, content, attendees and general atmosphere was due to community that has been curated. And I think that curation has been very intentional and has paid off. It was repeated numerous times that the Rust community is helpful and inviting... including IRC. (Thanks Steve, I think you're a powerful force in shaping the awesome, welcoming tone in the Rust community)

jeswin 10y ago

I apologize for being harsh here. But if you're submitting your own articles to HN, I think it might make sense for it to not read like an ad for your company. There is nothing technical in the article, not even links.

klausa 10y ago
I don't understand where the assumption that there must be something 'technical' in the post to 'deserve' a place on HN came from, but it's wrong.
- bluejekyll 10y ago
  Agree. Even if it is promoting their own company, this is a great example of someone using new technology to profit. I get excited when I see this, even if I don't learn anything from the content.

JoshTriplett 10y ago

I was one of the presenters at RustConf this year. Despite being a new conference, the organizers did incredibly well; everything went as smoothly as any of the top tier of Open Source conferences. And of all the Open Source conferences I've been to, I found RustConf by far the most welcoming and energizing; great reflection on both the Rust community and the RustConf organizers. I've found this about Rust in general: despite being a very new community, it manages to come across as quite mature and established in many ways. For instance, the language's stability-marking infrastructure allows experimentation with new language features without requiring stable applications to build with a nightly compiler because key dependencies want nightly features. Many of the mistakes and missteps that I've seen in new communities, as they rediscover problems from other communities, seem to have been anticipated and avoided in the Rust community. RustConf was a reflection of that; despite being the first RustConf, it went as smoothly as any established conference that's been running for years.

bluejekyll 10y ago
Have you posted you content online? It was an excellent talk. Nice job!
- JoshTriplett 10y ago
  > Have you posted you content online? The video should go up soon. I haven't posted the slides anywhere, but I should fix that. Ideally, I'd love to see all the slides posted on rustconf.com linked from the talks. > It was an excellent talk. Nice job! Thanks!

raphlinus 10y ago

I was also there as one of the presenters, and concur, it was a great experience. The strength of the community is absolutely one of the threads that ran throughout the conference. I've been involved in open source a long a long time and had sadly revised my expectations downward, but Rust is going a long way towards restoring my confidence. Kudos and thanks to the organizers!

pegasos1 10y ago

Agreed with my fellow co-speakers. It was humbling to be surround by such brilliant people. But it was also so inspiring to be a part of a community that takes pride in welcoming and empowering every developer, regardless of background.

tedmielczarek 10y ago

I don't attend many conferences, but I've been to a few and the quality of the speakers at RustConf was above and beyond any I've ever seen. Kudos to everyone that organized the event and spoke at it, it was a great experience!

__pid_t 10y ago

How does Rustconf support inclusivity like the Node.js conferences does?

hak8or 10y ago
What do you mean by inclusivity?
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  They're trying to troll by bringing up drama from a conference a little while ago.
andrewchambers 10y ago
I'm sure everyone is welcome. I care about your thoughts not the color of your skin or gender. I know you mean well but I want to avoid race/gender quotas. I hope that's not what you mean.

kibwen 10y ago

For those interested in more Rust conferences, RustFest is September 17-18 in Berlin (no idea if tickets are still available) and Rust Belt Rust is October 27-28 in Pittsburgh (tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rust-belt-rust-conference-registration-25729515674 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rust-belt-rust-conference-regis... ). Yours truly is giving one of the beginner tutorials at the latter, and I'll be handing out custom-machined rusty metal doodads to my attendees. :)

llogiq 10y ago
I'd really love to be there. My third child will probably be about 3 or 4 weeks old by that time, so I at least have good reason to miss out.
Xylakant 10y ago
Rustfest still has a few tickets left for sale from the late-bird batch.

solarengineer 10y ago

Is the webpage loading for anyone else? I'm being sent the Wordpress PHP code!

amluto 10y ago
I have the same problem. Oddly, even using archive.org sends me php code.
- captaincrowbar 10y ago
  Me three. Tried it on Chrome/Windows and Safari/Mac, same breakage.
Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Same. Oh well.
eyelidlessness 10y ago
If only they'd written it in Rust...
andygrove 10y ago
Web site is down ... too much love for Rust :-) We're working on it ... check back soon!
amluto 10y ago
Fixed now.

bluejekyll 10y ago

There was something Julia Evans said at the end that really struck me as the key to Rust (I can't quote it) The language gives you the security to try something new, convinces you that a mere mortal (as opposed to a C expert) can write systems level programs without fear. This is an amazing feature of the language. It's democratizing what used to be exclusive to a low level community.

mshenfield 10y ago
Obligatory links to talk and HN comments: http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/11/rustconf-keynote/ http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/11/rustconf-keynote/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477211

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vatotemking 10y ago

Rust is an awesome community. They are patient and helpful to newbies. As oppose to the 2 other communities i know of, the rust community can handle criticisms maturely. Its so refreshing. Cheers to rust!