An amazing (biased) talk about the rust language by one of the core contributors. Comparing accidents in the rail road industry to computer programming and memory safety.

Getting air-breaks approved in passenger and freight trains took a long time.

I’m starting to consider Rust as my next language to learn. The idea is growing in me as Rust allows you to write software at a much lower systems level. The other languages I know (PHP, Javascript, GO) are more targeted at web and server technologies. I have yet to write code for an embedded system.

Have a listen to the talk. I found it very interesting and I’m sure you will too.