“Let’s rewrite it in Rust” is no longer a party joke. It’s happening! Let me share a couple of stories of learning, appreciating and rewriting stuff in Rust. How we came to love 🦀 Ferris: cargo cult or real need? What is it like to come to Rust from two very different directions: C++ and C#? What are the gaps, the needs, the gems and the tools you should know about? Here’s a real journey and the various experiments leading up towards the success stories at Microsoft. Want to compare notes? Let’s chat. *About Victor Ciura* Victor Ciura is a Principal Engineer on the Microsoft365 Substrate team, building the Rust foundational libraries needed as part of the broader 🦀Oxidizer effort across the organization. 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. -------------------- *EuroRust 2024* – the yearly 2 day conference for the European Rust community ➡️ https://eurorust.eu _EuroRust is organized by Mainmatter, experts in Rust and distributed systems_ ➡️ https://mainmatter.com/rust/