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title: "Rust from the Back to the Front (Rust Sthlm)"
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date: 31.08.2016 16:30
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Last monday I attended the [Rust Sthlm][meetup] Meetup and gave a talk about using Rust for web development.
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About 60 people attended, had pizza and listened to the two talks of the evening.
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I started off with my talk *Rust from the Back to the Front*, giving an overview of the ecosystem around all things related to web programming in Rust.
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This was an updated talk of the one I gave in Budapest last year ([video online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9sTIi7wFPo)).
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I had some technical difficulties this time in the beginning (yeah, computers…), but otherwise the talk went well.
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People showed interest in the presented topics.
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Sadly I only briefly touched the new way of doing asynchronous I/O using [futures](https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-rs) and [tokio](https://github.com/tokio-rs).
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I definitely need to look deeper into this topic, as I think it can bring huge improvements to existing web frameworks and libraries as well.
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This has to wait a bit though, as I will first dive deeper into Emscripten (and present that [next week in Cologne](http://rustaceans.cologne/2016/09/05/compile-to-js.html) and in [Pittsburgh in October](http://www.rust-belt-rust.com/)).
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My slides are [online][slides] and I will try to collect more [resources in a Gist][resources].
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The second talk that evening was by [Kristoffer Grönlund][krig], giving us a quick introduction to some of Rust's features,
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followed by an overview of his work trying to get Rust into the openSUSE package repositories.
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Turns out it is not that easy, especially if everything has to be built from source and offline, but at least there are some improvements
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that might help make this easier.
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His slides are [online as well][suseslides].
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Even after the talks some of the people stuck around and we discussed several more things around Rust, how it is still evolving,
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fast moving and a bit unstable from time to time.
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All in all I had a great time, talked to a number of people about differen topics and I hope I could convince some to actually try Rust.
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With such a large and interested tech community in Stockholm, I'm sure the Meetup will live on.
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[meetup]: https://www.meetup.com/ruststhlm/events/232054490/
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[slides]: https://badboy.github.io/rust-sthlm/
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[resources]: https://gist.github.com/badboy/ba039333b8716c29d6038ef211ccd8e3
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[suseslides]: http://www.kri.gs/presentation-rust-obs-sthlm-meetup/#/4/5
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[krig]: https://github.com/krig
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