This is a presentation I made for an internal talk to introduce Rust. The target audience is mostly C and C++ developpers, and the talk is mostly focused on memory safety and concurrency.

Build

You'll need a LaTeX distribution installed, as well as the minted package. Build with:

pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape presentation.tex

References

These are some resources I used to make this talk. I don't know much about C++ so the biggest challenge was to learn about how RAII works in C++, and how it compared to Rust.

• users.rust-lang.org topic I created to prepare the talk
• @aaturon talk on which I based a lot of my own talk
• Programming Rust book which has a good section about memory safety and type safety
• A nice blog post by @willcrichton from which I took the C example
• An old and outdated article by @steveklabnik about pointers in Rust
• various resources about C++ smart pointers (some are outdated, incorrect, or opinionated, but well the talk is about Rust, not C++):
  • here
  • here
  • here (outdated)
  • here
  • here
  • here