Rust at Work

Live online conversation about the use of Rust at Work.

Trying to understand how people use Rust at their companies.

Planned events

Previous recordings

Process

• We schedule an event (in the Code-Mavens Meetup group) and let anyone register and attend the online event.

• During the event the audience can ask questions in the chat room that can enhance the whole conversation.

Topics (not all of them might be relevant to you)

• Please introduce yourself.

• Please introduce the company you work for. The products and services of your company.

• What was your entry point to Rust?

• Why do you use Rust?

• How did you introduce Rust to this company?

• Are you porting some software from some other language?

  • Why?
  • From which language?
  • What is the process?

• Are you writing a greenfield process in Rust?

  • What were the alternatives?
  • Why did you pick Rust?

• How do you select your dependencies?

  • Do you have a well defined process maybe even a selected team to accept new dependencies or is it up to the individual developer to add a new dependency?

• How much can you rely on open source crates?

  • How do you interact with the wider Rust community?
  • How do you ensure that the crates you rely on directly and all their dependencies are secure and well maintained?

• How do you fix issue in dependencies?

  • Locally?
  • Is it easy to have your changes accepted upstream?

• Do you allocate time to your developers to contribute to open source projects?

• Have you experienced with sponsoring certain open source Rust (or other) developers or bug bounties?

• What is your branching and development process?

  • Branches and pull-request?
  • Code-reviews?
  • Pair-programming?

• Are you looking for Rust developers? What is the hiring process?

• Is it easy/difficult to find Rust developers?

• What can people do to increase their chances to get picked and maybe even hired by your company?

• Time-travel: What would be the answer if someone has the time to plan 1-2 years ahead?

• What would you recommend to other engineering decision makers, CTOs, VP R&Ds, VP of Engineering, tech founders, etc. how to evaluate the feasibility of Rust for their projects and goals?

• How to adopt rust?

• What is the ROI switching to rust? How can we measure it?

• How do you evaluate the decision to switch to / use Rust?

• What are the parts of the Rust ecosystem that you found less than perfect? What do you miss from the language or from the ecosystem?

• What is your experience using AI tools to write Rust code? How do you think will impact the market share of programming languages?