10-29, 14:05–14:40 (Europe/Dublin), Intermediate Room
The Rust language will be briefly presented. The design choices and history of the meta-rust layer will be discussed along with the changes made and needed to merge rust into oe-core.
Rust is a relatively new language that promises a greater degree of safety while being a statically compiled language that is approximately as performant as C or C++. It is memory-safe by default while still allowing developers to have unsafe regions thereby being suitable for high performance systems-oriented ans operating system software development. In addition to giving an overview of the language, I will explain where and who the meta-rust layer came from and what has been done to get rust merged into oe-core. Future plans and developer workflow will be presented.
Randy is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Wind River Systems where he has worked for the last 10 years on a variety of tasks related to Wind River Linux and the Yocto project on which it is based.