Thursday
Room 1
11:40 - 12:40
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Panel: Rust (in production) Without Fear
"(re)write it in Rust" can be a funny meme or the scariest thing when they actually make you do it... in prod :)
Let's share a couple of stories about what it takes to embrace Rust in the industry. What are the gaps, the needs, the tools we needed to reengineer for Rust, to make it fit into a world that has never seen the likes of crabs?
2026: Are we Rust yet? What are the lessons learned from building & shipping Rust, what was the impact of some of the strategic Rust bets, what's working great in practice, what needs to be improved. Let's chat.
Victor Ciura
Victor Ciura is a Principal Engineer on the Rust team in Microsoft DevDiv, building the compiler toolchain and libraries needed for the broader 🦀Oxidizer effort across the organization and Rust open-source community.
Spent the last 20+ years doing systems programming in C++ on various teams, such as: Visual C++ (DevDiv), Advanced Installer, Clang Power Tools.
He’s a regular guest at Computer Science Department of his Alma Mater, University of Craiova, where he gives student lectures & workshops on algorithms and optimization techniques, using modern C++, Rust, Haskell.
More details: https://ciura.ro & linkedin.com/in/victor-ciura
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Helge Penne
Helge has worked professionally with C++ since the early 1990s, and has also developed SW using other languages like C#, Java and Rust.
He has worked mostly in the embedded space, and has developed SW for autonomous submarines, control systems, radars, data recorders, airborne systems, and various other things.
He currently works at Thales Norway where he is a SW developer and architect, and also tinkers a little with process and methodology.
Jon Gjengset
Jon is a Principal Engineer at Helsing where he develops safety-critical defense systems in Rust; he's the author of the intermedia Rust book "Rust for Rustaceans"; and he's an avid Rust educator with over 200 hours of tutorials and live coding videos on YouTube. Before Helsing, Jon maintained the Rust build infrastructure at AWS, and in his spare time he maintains a number of open-source tools and libraries written in Rust. He has a PhD from the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at MIT, where he built a new database engine from scratch , which today continues in the form of the start-up "ReadySet".