Talk

The Rust Vision Doc and You

by Niko Matsakis

Over the last few months the Rust Vision Doc project group has been conducting interviews of folks using Rust, Rust project maintainers, and global Rust interest groups. Come and hear about the data we’ve gathered thus far and help us figure out the next steps in the process!

Audience: Rust Project members and contributors

Speaker

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Niko Matsakis

co-lead of the Rust vision doc project group and the Rust language design team / Sr. Principal Engineer at Amazon

Nicholas Matsakis is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and Co-Lead of the open source Rust Language Design Team. He has worked on Rust since 2011, and led the design of its “secret sauce”, the borrow checker. He has played a number of other roles in Rust over the years, such as being a member of the Rust core team, the lead of the Rust compiler team, and helping to launch the Rust Foundation. Prior to working on Rust, he completed a PhD at ETH Zurich and did his undergraduate study at MIT.