Being one of the first companies (Iron.io) to use Go in production, the first to publicly hire Go developers and organizers of the largest Go meetup in the world, Travis has a unique perspective on the language and the community around it. Since we started using it, it has become one of the fastest growing languages and is being used in almost all startups (and non-startups) in some way or another. After making the switch from Ruby to Go - there’s plenty to be said after 4 years. A...

Rust is a language with a new vision of systems programming. It gives you low-level control and predictability but also provides the safety and ergonomics of much higher-level languages (like Ruby or Python). The secret sauce is Rust's core notion of "ownership", which enables memory safety without garbage collection, concurrency without data races, and abstraction without overhead.

In this talk, I'll explain ownership and show how Rust uses it to guarantee thread safety,...