RustWeek 2027, The Netherlands - May 24–29 2027. The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust.

Interop is the New Rewrite: Design Axioms for Rust's Next Frontier by Tyler Mandry. Demand for Rust has grown rapidly, making it a standard choice for new projects that need reliable and efficient…

Creativity loves constraint (solvers) by Adam Chalmers. Learn the maths behind constraint solvers, how to implement it efficiently with Rust linear algebra crates, and how we've built our new…

Between Computer Code And Legal Code: Open Source's Influence by Æva Black. In this talk, Aeva Black — engineer, policy advisor, and former U.S. government open source security lead — will share a…

Typst: Designing for Incrementality by Laurenz Mädje. Typst is sometimes called the love child of Rust and Markdown: A principled programming language married to a lightweight markup language that…

Rethinking the incremental system in between compilation types by Alejandra González. Extended / deeper talk about [RFC PR#3881](https://rust.tf/rfc3881), a proposed system for reutilizing target…

Tracking down undefined behaviour in Servo by Josh Bowman-Matthews. Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust that relies on a lot of unsafe code. What actually happens when that unsafe code…

Racing with Rust: building telemetry tools for racing simulators. by Harry van Haaren Car-simulator racing has seen a recent surge in activity, more users, and even more competitive driving at the…

Overcoming GitHub shortcomings with Triagebot by Urgau. Over the last year, Triagebot gained multiple features aimed at improving our GitHub workflow and addressing some of its shortcomings, like a…

Open Code Review: Trust Fosters Responsibility by Alice Cecile. Code review is a task for trusted experts: carefully controlling quality, passing on wisdom and enforcing a coherent project vision.…

Programming Your Own DSL in Rust – Experiences from Developing µcad by Michael Winkelmann. In 2025, we developed µcad (pronounced micro-cad), a domain-specific language for CAD for describing…

Why Rust's Semantics Don't Fit GPUs (Yet) by Michał Kostrubiec (aka FractalFir). GPUs are a world fraught with unsafe code - and a place where Rust still struggles to find its footing. The semantics…

Are we interop yet? by Teor. So you want to add Rust to an existing project… what's the catch? Multiple mature interop tools let you to call Rust from other languages. But some problems only the…

Programming Languages as a Community of Belonging by Hazel Weakly. In the last few decades, programming as an identity has gone through a tremendous amount of changes. One of the most impactful…

Blitz: building a modular web engine by Nico burns. Blitz is a new no-javascript web browser engine in Rust. Its focus on being modular, embeddable and lightweight makes it particularly suitable…

Rewriting bors: how hard can it be? by Jakub Beránek. Three years ago, we set out to rewrite bors, the merge queue bot used to merge all pull requests in the `rust-lang/rust` repository. A merge…

Obsessive Optimization with String Interning by arya dradjica. Low-level performance optimization is a challenging endeavor. It requires a wide breadth of knowledge and can be agonizingly slow. But…

Shaping Tomorrow’s Software Engineers by Mordecai emmanuel Etukudo. Discover Rust's potential to shape the future of software engineering in academia! In this talk, we'll explore why Rust’s safety,…

Can I borrow that? (Reborrow traits) by Aapo Alasuutari. Exclusive references make Rust, yet they cannot be built within Rust: the core act of reborrowing, that is giving temporary exclusive access…

Learning Rust as First Programming Language by Karin Lammers. What is it like to learn Rust as your first programming language? This talk covers the process, motivation, tools and tips & tricks for…

Debunking Rust Wasm Performance Myths: Why We Moved Core Business Logic to Rust at Canva by Taj Pereira and Andrew Jakubowicz. There is an ongoing myth in the web community that states you should…

Field Projections — Making Custom Pointers feel Builtin by Benno Lossin and Nadri. Rust makes heavy use of custom pointers filling the gap (& going beyond) between references (`&T` and `&mut T`) and…

Making sound — Dragging a ten year old crate into 2026 by Yara Kleingeld. Rodio is the oldest and most popular Rust Audio library. It turned ten last year! Over all those years Rust and its…

Field report on scripting Rust by Gergely Nagy. I needed to embed a scripting language within Rust, to drive a program of mine. To do so, I embarked on an Epic Quest to discover what's available,…

FFI in Miri at 8000 segfaults per second by Nia Deckers. Miri is an essential tool for checking unsafe Rust code, but it had always been limited to running that code and no more. Work has been done…

Expanding Processing's Reach with Rust + Bevy by Moon Davé. Processing has helped millions learn to code through visual, interactive projects since 2001. The values that shaped it remain essential,…

Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust by Cosmo Bobak and Kora. We’ll cover some of the most interesting or unique problems we encounter writing competitive chess engines and how Rust is excellently…

One year of moderation by Oli Scherer and Antonio Piraino. We will talk about how moderation works in the Rust project and its challenges across the project (in different venues) over the past year.…

Untrusted data in Linux — How Rust is going to save us by Greg Kroah-Hartman. One of the most common security issues in all software is handling data that is not trusted properly. The Linux kernel…

The trials of qualifying Rust by Aïssata Maïga. Ferrocene is the first qualified Rust compiler for use in safety-critical industries. It is a fully open source "blackbox" where the tools included…

Completion-based IO by Alice Ryhl. Talk abstract to be announced. About Alice Ryhl (she/her): Alice is a software engineer on the Android Rust team at Google, where she works on Rust for Linux and…

Out of tree access to compiler state by Alona Enraght-Moony. The rust compiler develops a rich understanding of your source code. In addition to using this to produce an executable, this is also use…

Growing with our users: How the Rust Project is reshaping our communication by Jack Huey and Niko Matsakis. Over the past fifteen years, Rust has grown from a small project used by Mozilla and few…

When Iterators Aren't Zero Cost by Xavier Denis. Here’s something that surprises many new Rust developers: iterators can be *faster* than hand-written loops. The compiler sees the pattern, LLVM…

One year of facet: reflections on reflection by Amos Wenger. The https://github.com/facet-rs/facet project is over a year old at this point (the point this talk would be given) — is it stable yet?…

Rust for Secure and Sustainable Smart Metering by Ron van der Pols. Across The Netherlands, the energy transition is driving major upgrades to our digital infrastructure. I’ll share how our team…

Precise, consistent, and reliable code coverage by Jynn Nelson. Most existing coverage tools are aimed at "good enough" measurements, where percentages are used as a rough estimate, and the change…

Common Pitfalls of Rewriting Things In Rust by Cliff L. Biffle. While a lot of systems code can be expressed easily in Rust, there are common patterns from C, C++, and Go that are just more effort…

Writing GPU shaders in plain Rust by Sebastian Sydow (aka Firestar99). Rust-GPU is a rustc codegen backend that compiles embedded rust code to GPU shaders. You can then use these shaders in bevy,…

Popping the Hood on Rust in the 2026 Toyota RAV4 by Pete LeVasseur. The journey to large scale Rust adoption begins with not just a single step, but many parallel steps. Toyota’s approach focused on…

Lessons Learnt from using Rust as the Intro to Programming by Andreea Costea. Rust is rarely the first language that comes to mind for introductory programming courses. Its strong type system,…

Scaling up Rust development at the Dutch Electoral Council by Mark Janssen. We’re going to share some of the lessons we have learned after using Rust in production for Dutch elections, and talk…

How we replace common C⁠(⁠+⁠+⁠) libraries with Rust at scale by Bastian Kersting. Google depends on a lot of C(++) libraries for fundamental tasks like image and audio decoding, XML and JSON…

When uom isn't enough: Handling units of measurement in production CAD by Rose Peck. As it turns out, handling units of measurement in the real world is actually really hard! uom is an awesome…

Tales of a transformation journey at Proton by Jeremy Lempereur. About five years ago, Proton took a direction that eventually led us to use Rust across the org. This presentation is an opportunity…

Compilers are just programs: Fixing a bug in the Rust compiler by Boxy. Compilers are often considered to be significantly more complex and esoteric than "normal" programs, magical black boxes not…

Knock, knock. Race condition! Who's there? — A Refactoring Story by Stefan Baumgartner. Concurrency in Rust can be hard, especially when the language throws other obstacles in your way. Like with…

Oxidizing the Linux Kernel - Rust in Production - Live podcast recording with Alice Ryhl, Greg Kroah-Hartman and hosted by Matthias Endler. About Alice Ryhl (she/her): Alice is a software engineer…

Stabilizing decade-old features by Folkert de Vries. `error[E0658]: ᐸthe thing you needᐳ is unstable`, now what? This talk is about me deciding that I would stabilize some features that have been…