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Very high level intro to Rust
    Goals: speed, safety, concurency
    Ownership and move semantics
    Zero-cost abstractions

1.0 is out! (release planned for the day before !!Con)
    What does “stable” mean?
    Semantic versioning
    Release trains (nightly/beta/stable) and rapid release, à la Firefox

Ideas from three universes:
    Systems languages: control over memory layout (stack v.s. heap), no mandatory garbage collection
    Functional languages: algebraic data type and pattern matching, strong type system
    Dynamic languages: tooling

Tooling: Cargo
    No Makefiles!
    Similar to Bundler, pip, or npm
    Manage dependencies (git or in the centralized registry)
    Publish your own code on the registry

    **This makes systems programming much more accessible!**

More tooling (cut if over 10 minutes)
    Built-in unit testing
    rustdoc
    Both integrated in Cargo