Rust Cologne is a monthly meetup dealing with everything Rust. We’ll have a look at the first few days of Advent of Code, talk about possible solutions and compare them to AI-generated code . Also - to complete the tradition - there will be Glühwein!

(The meetup will likely be held in German but we’ll switch to English if needed.)

Dear Rustacean,

you are hereby warmly invited to join the next Rust Cologne meetup. Whether you want to speed up your python code, write a web service, need interop with your C++-codebase, cross-compile for a microcontroller, write an emulator, … we’ve got you covered!

We commonly open up with a brief summary of noteworthy changes in the Rust ecosystem. Be it updates to the language itself, public events, its impact on other projects and languages, …

Continuing the tradition of the recent years we’ll try to solve the first few days of the Advent of Code-event. This is usually a very beginner-friendly programming exercise with lots of life-coding. Due to the ever-increasing popularity of LLMs, we might want to compare our solutions to those written by an AI and see if and how they differ.

As usual, the remaining time is about whatever you want to talk about!

Always wanted to know why Rust is harder to learn than other popular languages or why it lacks a certain feature? When is it appropriate to rewrite a project in Rust? Is the compiler really that slow and are the binaries really that big? Do all those safety guarantees have an impact on the performance? Fetch a Glühwein (with or without alcohol) and let’s find out.

You can register here.

See you soon!

Yours, Florian and Kai

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If you have a topic you’d like to talk about, please let us know in advance. This way we can make sure there’s a time-slot for you and maybe announce it officially. Thank you.

Please let us know if you're planning to drop by! :-)