2024-06-18 visiting Rust Frankfurt

Three of us visited the Rust Frankfurt meeting.

The organizer gave a talk on the history of Rust with a focus on the programming languages that influenced the development of Rust. Here are the links to some Wikipedia pages for further reading:

• Rust (programming language)
• OCaml
• ML (meta language)

The talk sparked a lively discussion in which a number of programs, crates and blogs were mentioned. Here is a list in no particular order and without any rating:

• Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.
• Leptos is a full-stack framework for building web applications in Rust.
• Trunk is a WebAssembly (WASM) web application bundler for Rust.
• rayon-wasm: Simple work-stealing parallelism for Rust.
• Matthias Endler has a number of articles on Rust on his blog.
• Iced is a cross-platform GUI library focused on simplicity and type-safety.
• Krustlet is a tool to run WebAssembly workloads natively on Kubernetes.