Talk
The Death and Life of Unsafe Fields
by Jack Wrenn
Unsafe fields are on track to be the first major extension to Rust’s safety tooling in a decade. This talk is a tour of the design process for unsafe fields—stretching from the feature’s early ideation in 2014, to the all-gas design and implementation sprint of the New Year, and whatever the coming months have in store (speculatively: another lang team meeting, experimentation within the standard library and RFC review).
Audience: People who write unsafe code
Speaker
Jack Wrenn
Applied Scientist at AWS, volunteer bike mechanic at Cyclab, and sometimes professor. Tandem bicycle enthusiast. He sometimes writes.