Bending The Curve: Putting Rust in Ruby with Helix
summary
Helix claims to let Ruby code move hotspot logic into Rust without C’s danger or huge boilerplate: the team shows a Rails generator, a small demo crate (a text flipper) that compiles, runs tests and deploys on Heroku, and a gem users can install without a local Rust toolchain thanks to precompiled binaries. Examples include rewriting a 50-line C speedup and noting 20x faster for fast_blank while making the Rust side 12 lines of Rust with type-checked Ruby bindings that actually work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:42Why Helix
- 7:33Why Rust
- 11:23Vision
- 12:10Demo
- 17:44Challenges and Solutions
- 22:17Macros
- 30:14Type Safety
- 38:15Roadmap
