RustConf 2026: Full Schedule

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09:55 EDT

Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:55 - 10:05 EDT

Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Rustls has provided memory-safe Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Rust projects since 2016. In this talk, we'll look back on a decade of building and maintaining the library. We'll discuss the design decisions that shaped it, lessons learned from a security-critical open source project, and how adoption has grown across the ecosystem. We'll also cover what we've been working on recently, and share our plans and priorities for the next ten years of Rustls.

Speakers

Joe Birr-Pixton

Open source maintainer

I’m Joe, hailing from Cambridge, UK. I’m a security engineer, formerly with Twilio, Electric Imp, BlackBerry, Good Technology, Thales, and nCipher. These days I mostly work in Rust, but my professional experience is in C and C++. I’m the original author of the “rustls” crate... Read More →

Daniel McCarney

Open source maintainer

Daniel McCarney is a full-time open source maintainer from Canada working in applied cryptography. He helps maintain Rustls, a high-performance TLS library written in Rust, and the Go standard library's cryptography packages, among other projects. He also helped standardize and implement... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 09:55 - 10:05 EDT
Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Project Updates

10:15 EDT

Project Update: Bringing Rust into Python

Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:15 - 10:25 EDT

Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

In the last few years, Python users started looking at Rust as an alternative for building Python modules. It can deliver performance on par with C with a developer experience much closer to Python.

Late last year, two members of the Python Core team proposed integrating Rust into the CPython interpreter and standard library.

The Rust Project reached out with support, and established an ongoing communication channel with core Python developers, PyO3 maintainers, and on the Rust side, Cargo, language, and compiler members. We talked through the challenges they're facing, proposed suggestions, brought in experts, and worked together to address concerns people will raise.

This is an overview of that collaboration, where we're now and what's coming next.

Speakers

Tomáš Šedovič

Rust Program Manager

Tomas has worked in tech for over 20 years, most of it on free and open source software (OpenStack and Kubernetes). More recently, he managed a team making hardware access manageable (Ironic project), and later on, building Linode Kubernetes Engine.

He picked Rust up in 2013, th... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 10:15 - 10:25 EDT
Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal