Rust Nation UK 2026
who it's for
rust application developers, systems programmers, embedded developers, compiler and toolchain engineers, machine learning and AI engineers, open source maintainers, engineering managers
topics
microbial genomics toolkit in Rust; Tauri remote pair programming; VP9 codec tuning and libwebrtc; embedded inference engines and GGUF; Crux microfrontends for shared cores; safety-critical and foundation software; writing a single-threaded async runtime; lifetimes as sets of loans; Ratatui on RP2040 embedded displays; LLVM backend compiler in Rust; agentic AI framework guarantees; RFC 3729 sizedness extensions
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What if the way you code could change the planet? | Lisa Crossman | 23m |
Code-level choices matter: an open-source Rust toolkit microBioRust exists for microbial genomics and it's built, benchmarked and used; a Python port runs… | ||
| Building an OSS Remote Pair Programming App in Rust | Iason Paraskevopoulos | 36m |
Hopp is an OSS, cross‑platform remote-control and screen-sharing app built with Tauri, using LiveKit and libwebrtc; the team tunes VP9 and codec flags to get… | ||
| From Tiny Chips to Server Racks: Deploying AI Everywhere with Rust | Stephan Eckes | 01h 00m |
Tests every common inference engine (ONNX Runtime, llama.cpp alternatives, executort, etc.), benchmarks Rust frameworks (ort/ort-rs, burn, candle, tract), and… | ||
| Scaling Large Organisations: Empowering Independent Teams with Crux Micro‑Frontends | Stuart Harris, Ludovico Rossi | 59m |
Proton uses Rust and the Crux framework to put business logic into sharable Rust “cores” that run on iOS, Android, web and CLI while each shell provides native… | ||
| Rust for Foundation Software | Pete LeVasseur | 56m |
Rust already appears in production: a mobile robotics in production deployment and a medical device at mid-tier safety levels, while toolchains like the Ferris… | ||
| Let's write an async runtime | Zeeshan Ali Khan | 01h 05m |
Builds a tiny single‑threaded Rust executor that implements block_on and spawn, boxes futures as a pinned boxed future, and first uses a busy loop then… | ||
| use ＜'lifetimes＞ for ＜'what＞ | Ethan Brierley | 35m |
Argues that lifetimes are best understood as lifetimes as sets of loans and that a loans-based borrow checker checks which loans are live on each line, not… | ||
| If it can compute, it can run Ratatui | Orhun Parmaksız | 37m |
Ratatui proves it can run on tiny devices: it renders a slide deck as firmware on an RP2040 driving a 240×320 display and maps terminal cells to pixels via an… | ||
| Demystifying LLVM: Writing Your First Compiler - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Lyle Dean | 39m |
Built a toy compiler called Cyclang in Rust and targets LLVM via the low‑level C bindings so the code generator emits LLVM IR and uses the JIT or can produce a… | ||
| Rust & Rig: Building for Stability in a Rapidly Changing AI Landscape | Joshua Mo | 29m |
Rig is an open agentic AI framework in Rust that already scales to 6,000 GB stars and 270k downloads and focuses on concrete guarantees: compile-time… | ||
| Rust is NOT hard to learn! | Francesco Ciulla | 43m |
Claims Rust is not hard to learn after an initial hump and that the real barrier is unlearning old habits and mastering ownership and the borrow checker… | ||
| Extending Rust’s notions of sizedness | David Wood | 29m |
Proposal implements RFC 3729 to extend Rust’s sizedness so scalable vectors (SVE) and extern types can behave like registers and FFI forwards. It uses a const… | ||
| rk8s: A Lightweight Rust-based Alternative to Kubernetes | Zhouxuan Tang | 48m |
Rk8s claims a trimmed Kubernetes experience: a single Rust binary plays control-plane and node roles while one binary, multiple roles unifies CLI, runtime and… | ||
| Rust Adoption At Scale | Jon Seager | 19m |
Canonical ships Rust rewrites of coreutils and sudo as the default in Ubuntu 25.10, claiming a seamless rollout across an installed base of 15 million daily… | ||
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