GCC Rust is a front-end project for the GNU toolchain, a work-in-progress alternative to the official Rustc compiler. Being part of GCC, the compiler benefits from the common compiler flags, available backend targets and provides insight into its distinct optimiser’s impact on a modern language. In this talk, I will introduce the compiler, demonstrate its current state and discuss the goals and motivations for the project.

The Rust London Community is excited to announce our community will become affiliated with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group.

The Rust programming language has the ethos of empowering through collaboration in its DNA. We here at Rust London are excited to open up our community and connect with the OSSG. This meetup serves as the beginning of our friendship and we are excited to have this incredible line-up of speakers at our first hybrid Rust LDN Talks

Clippy is the official linter of the Rust language. Clippy helps you to write clean, idiomatic and most importantly correct code. In this talk we first look at how Clippy is used. After that we look into the internals of Clippy and discover how it works. For that, we’ll also get a bit into the internals of rustc. In the end I’ll talk about why we at Clippy like dogfood so much.

Doctor Syn is a computer algebra system with a focus on giving libm a more 21st century feel — mainly through autovectorisation and inlining. libm is the C standard maths library whch has many implementations but is only available for one language: C.

The companion project, libmgen generates the standard C maths libary for many languages and register formats including SIMD. We are able to generate polynomial approximations inline in Rust code which can then be translated using the syn Rust library to different formats.

Expected speedups are anything up to 30 times for single threaded and a thousand times for multi threaded operation.

The library generator allows varying levels of accuracy and edge-case handling for games, finance or mission critical applications.