I got a chance to teach Rust as part of an undergraduate introduction to programming language theory class way back in 2016-2017, and spoke about it at RustConf

I got a chance to teach Rust as part of an undergraduate introduction to programming language theory class way back in 2016-2017, and spoke about it at RustConf 2017. Here's the video for the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PhfaFkzdBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PhfaFkzdBA My key takeaways were basically that students took to it better than I had anticipated, and that Rust proved to be a useful way to illustrate a number of interesting programming language ideas. Note that because it was a PL class, not a Rust class, that students were not expected to walk away as capable, ready-to-run Rustaceans.