Happy New Year Everyone? Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
Who: Jim Blandy What: Rust Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology freedom Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live Rust is meant to compete with C and C++ in performance, but also provide memory safety. Someone has written a small kernel in Rust. Rust is only attractive to JavaScript / Python types when they run into a problem where memory consumption or processor consumption is a real limiting factor. Then, it's much easier for them to transition into Rust than C/C++, but Rust gives them the performance they need. Some Rust killer apps: - Mozilla's experimental browser engine, Servo (which outperforms Firefox on a single core, and destroys it when running on four cores); - Tilde's Skylight profiling system for Rails apps, which uses Rust to handle the voluminous data produced by running apps: http://www.tilde.io/skylight/ - OpenDNS, which is again using Rust to handle large amounts of data in real time: https://labs.opendns.com/2013/10/04/zeromq-helping-us-block-malicious-domains/ Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250469452 Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. after the meeting. Rideshares Available PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/ Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings. See you there! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
