Re-inventing trait objects
by Waffle
Trait objects are everywhere in Rust, but do you know how they actually work? Join me as I re-implement trait objects from scratch, discovering their inner workings and all the smart design decisions that have been put into them.
Speaker
Waffle
A nonbinary compiler engineer. Currently working on the rust compiler as a member of the compiler team (having worked on features like ""explicit tail calls"" and ""the never type"", among many other things) in my own time and on writing a proprietary rustc backend at tasking.com. I’ve also maintained a popular library for chat bots (teloxide, 3.3k github stars) and co-created the unfair rust quiz.
I just ""do stuff"" and in the past 4 years, ""the stuff"" is mostly Rust.
The description for this field seem to imply that I should put something silly here too, not just the dry boring facts… I love hiking on mountains, both in Celeste (the critically acclaimed 2018 platformer) and in real life.
meow :3