This Month in Rust, December 2024

[kawogi]

ToDo

• Settle for a date and location: Wednesday 2024-12-04, 19:15 CET at C4 (default: first Wednesday each month)
• Send "Save the Date" info (with link to this ticket)
• Basic Agenda (default: "This Month in Rust")
• Final invitation (deadline T - 10 days)
  • meetup
  • website
  • [community calendar]

Invitation draft

Title: Rust in December: Advent of Code

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

Dear Rustacean,

our next monthly Meetup will be on Wednesday 2024-12-04, 19:15 CEST.

You're new to Rust, tried it out with some private projects or are already working professionally with it for years? You're in good company! 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 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, …

After that there will be Glühwein! Ah, and we'll have a look at the Advent of Code puzzles. This is expected to be a very beginners-friendly topic and you're invited to compare the solutions in Rust with any other programming language you're familiar with.

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.

Rust News

• new rust release?

[kawogi]

@Florob usual data/time/agenda for December? Shall we announce this early (if you think the draft is ok)?

(I'll double-check with my calendar, but I think it'll be ok)

[Florob]

@kawogi I'd be fine with announcing soon-ish. Announcement looks good to me.
Aside: Can you think of a way to make the month specific part stand out a bit more? I think that would improve things for regular visitors/invitation readers.

[kawogi]

Do you need help or financial support with the Glühwein-logistics?

[Florob]

Do you need help or financial support with the Glühwein-logistics?

Not with actually acquiring the beverages, but it turns out I'll have to be in a meeting the hour immediately preceding the meetup. So if you could turn up a bit earlier to get started heating up the Glühhwein that would help.

[kawogi]

I'll do my best. Fingers crossed that DB is on time for once …

[grouvie]

I'm looking forward to your day 2 part 2 solution without bruteforcing it. @kawogi :D

[kawogi]

Dang, I just opted for brute-forcing 😂
Maybe I invest some more time to provide a better solution.

[kawogi]

Thanks for holding my beer @grouvie 😏
I'll bring a solution that is single-pass, streaming, allocation-free, multi-threaded, almost readable, O(n) complexity, has unit tests and is cool in general 😎

See you then.

[kawogi]

@Florob looks like several trains will no be operating on Wednesday. I'll do my best, but I might not make it in time.
Maybe people will just have to wait a little longer for their beverage or just opt for the microwave then - no stress ;)

[Abdull]

at which time are doors open?

[kawogi]

around 19:00

[kawogi]

I'd be interested in a cleaner solution for Day 3 Part 2