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** Speaker announcement ** Our first speaker is Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel developer / Fellow at @linuxfoundation.org.

Info & tickets:
2026.rustweek.org

Ahead of our CFP, we will announce our invited speakers. Also want to speak at RustWeek? Our CFP opens Nov 1st.

#rustlang #rustweek2026

RustNL - Rust Maintainers Fund - Keeping the Rust Project maintained so you can focus on building reliable software

We're excited to announce a new initiative to support the Rust Project, our Rust Maintainers Fund!

We are setting out to employ 6 full-time maintainers and 6 interns in 2026 to make sure #rustlang is well maintained and bugs and contributions get the attention they need.

Read more: rustnl.org/fund

The next Rust All Hands | Inside Rust Blog Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!

RustNL will host the Rust All Hands again in 2026!

The All Hands will be part of RustWeek 2026, and take place on May 21-23.

@mara.bsky.social 's blog post has the details:
blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

#rustweek2026 #rust

You can find the info on the website of the previous edition, eg for the conference 2025.rustweek.org/kinepolis/.
We'll publish more on the 2026 website soon!

RustWeek 2026 RustWeek 2026, The Netherlands - May 18 - 23 2026. The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.

** Ticket sales now open ** Get your Early Bird tickets for RustWeek 2026!

The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.

2026.rustweek.org

#rustweek2026 #rust

On Monday we will *officially* announce the opening of the #rustweek2026 ticket sales, but... in no way do we object to buying tickets before then :)

(yes, it's totally possible)

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 inte... The Rust Vision Doc and You - Niko Matsakis et al.

The Rust Vision Doc and You
by Niko Matsakis, Jack Huey, and Tim McNamara at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/8vz_pg-eI4I

@nikomatsakis.com‬
@timclicks.dev‬

#rustlang #RustWeek

Unintentional breakage sucks for everyone involved. It’s a sociotechnical problem, and we need to do better on both the “socio” and the “technical” parts. Se... What it'll take to eradicate unintended breakage from Rust - Predrag Gruevski

What it'll take to eradicate unintended breakage from Rust
by Predrag Gruevski at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/bUN54ByMp3U

@predr.ag‬

#rustlang #RustWeek

A minimum subset of const generics was stabilized in 2021 with a significant number of limitations. While not much has changed stabley for const generics sin... The State of Const Generics - Boxy UwU

The State of Const Generics
by Boxy UwU at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/Bmmm3mYPmUM

#rustlang #RustWeek

Representing pattern types in the type system in a coherent way has a lot of interesting parts that no other types have had so far. I’ll talk about the lower... Adding Pattern Types to the Type System - Oli Scherer

Adding Pattern Types to the Type System
by Oli Scherer at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/ftHJwTDPfzI

#rustlang #RustWeek

Real-world programming languages often suffer from notorious under-specification. This is a particularly bad problem for languages that make heavy use of Und... MiniRust: A core language for specifying Rust - Ralf Jung

MiniRust: A core language for specifying Rust
by Ralf Jung at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/yoeuW_dSe0o

#rustlang #RustWeek

For Rust to be as fast as people need, we need to look beyond “how fast is rustc”. I’ll step through an end-user focused framing of performance, things we le... Performance: We're In This Together - Ed Page

Performance: We're In This Together
by Ed Page at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/-jy4HaNEJCo

#rustlang #RustWeek

Cargo’s 10 year journey from basic dependency handling to its upcoming PubGrub-based resolver, reflects the growing complexity of the Rust ecosystem. We’ll s... From Simple to PubGrub: The Evolution of Cargo's Resolver - Jacob Finkelman

From Simple to PubGrub: The Evolution of Cargo's Resolver
by Jacob Finkelman at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/LGXx5Bqcgq8

#rustlang #RustWeek

A brief overview of the less visible work happening in the Compiler Team. And why the one doing it can be you!You can find Antonio on GitHub: https://github.... Contributing to the Rust compiler with little to no code - Antonio Piraino

Contributing to the Rust compiler with little to no code
by Antonio Piraino at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/-3KKeeZkYog

#rustlang #RustWeek

Rustc’s frontend has various stages, phases, contexts and IRs, with the code going through transformations and acquiring invariants that build up to ensure t... (Almost) Everything You Should Know About The Compiler Frontend - Michael Goulet aka compiler-errors

(Almost) Everything You Should Know About The Compiler Frontend
by Michael Goulet, aka compiler-errors, at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/aFG5KtpEynk

‪@errs.io‬

#rustlang #RustWeek

We all know Rust scales up, but what kind of resources do you need for Rust firmware in low-end embedded systems?How about a couple of kilobytes in a US$0.50... Really Small Rust - Cliff L. Biffle

Really Small Rust
by Cliff L. Biffle at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/NKsPEZzA4XM

#rustlang #RustWeek

Are you having to choose between writing your device driver quickly or writing it well?Fear not! With the device-driver toolkit all this is solved with a bit... Codegen your problems away - device-driver toolkit - Dion Dokter

Codegen your problems away - device-driver toolkit
by Dion Dokter at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/xt1vcL5rF1c

@diondokter.nl‬

#rustlang #RustWeek

How many Vim shortcuts do you know? What’s the most obscure? What’s the most useful?I’ll share a few of the forgotten corners of Vim, the features I didn’t k... Rewriting Vim in Rust: Lessons Learned - Conrad Irwin

Rewriting Vim in Rust: Lessons Learned
by Conrad Irwin at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/5z9Dbuw6EXA

#rustlang #RustWeek

We open-sourced a SAT solver, Resolvo, for our package manager. In this talk we’ll take you on a journey where we show you how we made this performant, ergon... SAT for Rustaceans - Tim de Jager

SAT for Rustaceans
by Tim de Jager at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/4GJe-JK6_Jw

#rustlang #RustWeek

Gccrs, an alternative compiler for Rust, has had the goal of compiling the extremely complex std crate for a few years now. Reaching that milestone will prov... Inching ever closer to the Rust standard library with gccrs - Arthur Cohen & Pierre Emmanuel Patry

Inching ever closer to the Rust standard library with gccrs
by Arthur Cohen & Pierre Emmanuel Patry at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/lvWsRUdYueY

#rustlang #RustWeek

The Rust Embedded ecosystem is alive & kicking, but trails the C world regarding integration. Enter Ariel OS, integrating the best of Rust on microcontroller... Ariel OS - An Open Source Embedded Rust OS - Emmanuel Baccelli & Koen Zandberg

Ariel OS - An Open Source Embedded Rust OS
by Emmanuel Baccelli & Koen Zandberg at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/eT_r8WCPIwA

#rustlang #RustWeek

Trait objects are everywhere in Rust, but do you know how they actually work? Join me as I re-invent trait objects from first principles, explain their inner... Re-inventing trait objects - Waffle

Re-inventing trait objects
by Waffle at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/pNA-XAIrDTk

#rustlang #RustWeek

I will discuss building high performance search indexes in Rust and show that we can achieve SoTA performance for both sparse and dense vector retrieval. To ... Building High Performance Search Indexes in Rust with SIMD - Jack Pertschuk

Building High Performance Search Indexes in Rust with SIMD
by Jack Pertschuk at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/t_ALyJ174gs

#rustlang #RustWeek

This talk explores how Rust powers every layer of our single-photon detectors: from async firmware on microcontrollers with Embassy to auto-generated APIs an... Fearless Single-Photon Detection: Leveraging Rust for Scientific Instruments

Fearless Single-Photon Detection: Leveraging Rust for Scientific Instruments
by Fabian Beutel at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/3UTvkuSdNoY

#rustlang #RustWeek

Every now and then, Bevy users would ask for a simple helper: give me a way to mark a component on an entity as “read-only” so library authors could uphold i... Bevy's immutable components: managing side effects in a parallel world - Alice Ivy Cecile

Bevy's immutable components: managing side effects in a parallel world
by Alice Ivy Cecile at RustWeek 2025!
youtu.be/HZylYZHFhaM

@alice-i-cecile.bsky.social‬

#rustlang #RustWeek

High-fidelity Rust/C++ interoperability without loss of performance has yet to be achieved. Just “making things work” is not enough - many of the explored so... Duck-Tape Chronicles: Rust/C++ Interop - Victor Ciura

Duck-Tape Chronicles: Rust/C++ Interop
by Victor Ciura at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVV...

‪@ciuravictor.bsky.social‬

#rustlang #RustWeek

This talk will present a postmortem of the worst bug you can imagine happen for a bot which only feature is to post comics: The wrong comic being posted.To e... Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug) - Valdemar Erk

Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug)
by Valdemar Erk at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQd...

#rustlang #RustWeek

This talk will change your perspective on how good Rust actually is in SW development in industry settings. Forget about the advantages in initial developmen... Fearless Refactoring - Martin Kooij

Fearless Refactoring
by Martin Kooij at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkN...

#rustlang #RustWeek

Atomics and memory ordering are a commonly misunderstood, but incredibly useful part of Rust and C++. In this talk we will walk through why memory ordering i... Atomic break down: understanding ordering - Ciara

Atomic break down: understanding ordering
by Ciara at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5xY...

#rustlang #RustWeek

In a classic case of “Rewrite It In Rust”, implementing a novel algorithm for identifying binding sites in DNA led to a 100x improvement in speed. This talk ... Gigabytes per second of DNA: using Rust for matching genomic motifs - Martin Larralde

Gigabytes per second of DNA: using Rust for matching genomic motifs
by Martin Larralde at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztmr...

#rustlang #RustWeek