Rust AG is a regular - almost weekly - meeting at the end of the working day. The meeting takes place at the Institute of Physics of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, where you can also join virtually. Topics are the programming language 'Rust', but also everything else around programming and computers. We usually speak German with each other.
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2024-07-16 meeting summary

Today, this website has been published :D We also talked about dealing with configuration files with serde: Deserializing a simple Cargo.toml file The default field attribute with a function. Enums with the rename_all container attribute Manually implementing the Deserialize tra…
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2024-07-09 meeting summary

We revisited the new Zola website. It will be online soon. We talked about textbooks that might give us ideas for future topics for Rust AG: Jon Gjengset: Rust for Rustaceans: Idiomatic Programming for Experienced Developers Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Distributed S…
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2024-07-02 meeting summary

We talked about CPU caches, cache lines and how to speed up for loops by using functional coding. The size and access speed of the memory cache of modern CPUs was discussed on slide 19ff of my presentation at the Streaming Readout IV workshop I gave in Camogli, Italy, in 2019. We…
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2024-06-25 meeting summary

We reviewed our trip to Rust Frankfurt and finally decided to create our own website using Zola.

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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 M…