Opening Keynote
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Rust marks its fifth birthday and reports concrete milestones: 305 team members, over 2,000 issues per month, a tooling stack that replaced Make with Cargo and crates.io, a 2016 overhaul of compiler diagnostics that now gives actionable error messages, RFC 2966 setting a low‑stress 2021 edition cadence, RFC 2912 pushing rust‑analyzer as the IDE backend, experiments toward a Rust Foundation, active moderation and mentoring efforts, and explicit diversity and accessibility goals with measurable community growth.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 7:52What To Expect
- 9:20Error Messages
- 12:03Code of Conduct
- 12:26Codes of Conduct
- 15:24The History of Rust
- 20:14Module System
- 21:13Educating on Things That Are Hard
- 21:30Errors
- 23:46Team Structure
- 28:23What Is Politics
- 40:34The 2021 Edition
- 47:48Culture of the Rust Community
- 48:54Mentoring and Community Building
- 49:43Empathy
- 50:57Thank Yous
- 51:34Sponsors
