FP and Crypto: Our Journey from Scala to Rust

Are you thinking of porting an existing codebase to Rust? Porting, if not done carefully, can leave you with a non-idiomatic, hard-to-maintain, mess. In this talk, we will explore my journey of porting an open source, FP Scala library to Rust – from motivation to pitfalls to lessons-learned. We will map Functional Programming principles onto Rust and look at real- world examples of turning FP concepts into idiomatic Rust!

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Intermediate: Requires a basic knowledge of the area

Who is your session intended to

This talk is for 2 broad categories: 1) People who know Scala and have heard of Rust but don't know if that would be a good fit for their next project? 2) People who think going to Rust is a good idea, but don't understand the trade offs of the 2 languages.

Speaker

Colt Frederickson (IronCore Labs)

• Scala by the bay - 2016 (no video)
• Scala by the bay - 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXli13psuA
• Lambdaconf 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5QwVqdkVtY

Contributes

• recrypt
• recrypt-rs
• cats