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Hello!



This is the first San Diego Rust meetup.



My name is Nelson and I am starting this meetup group. I'm very new to this meetup thing but after waiting a few months and not really seeing anything stirring around San Diego to fit this interest of mine, I got a little impatient and I decided to go and make this group. There's got to be people out there interested in this in San Diego, right?!



Rust is ... to quote ... "Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes*, and eliminates data races. " - http://www.rust-lang.org/



To me, that is like a language with the nicer/safe parts of Ruby/Scala and the RAM/overhead/speed usage of a decently-written C++ application. In the wake of Heartbleed, gotofail, and other **SCARY** fiascos (more to come in 2015! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻), more and more people are looking hard at this language to get safety guarantees on very fast code without resorting to an expensive GC to paper over issues.



Rust also has *not* been officially released yet and is still in a state of flux. As I'm writing into this "More details:" box, they are currently tearing out the old IO library and reimplementing it with an API that better expresses what's happening "down there". The Rust team is recommending users not start any serious investment or learning or projects until at least the first beta release. That's at least 3 to 5 weeks from now.



I don't really have any talks to announce at this point. If you would like to give a talk, let me know. Personally, I'm still learning my way around Rust and stumbling on basic things (that IO business I mentioned is a wrench!) so I doubt I can personally really give a talk of any meaningful value. But if you actually can, please step right up!



If there are no talks, that's not a problem, aw, come on, let's all just meet! For more info about Rust, refer to " http://www.rust-lang.org/ "