RustConf 2026: Full Schedule

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11:05 EDT

Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT

Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

A good C++ interop solution is essential for organizations migrating new development to Rust on their large, existing C++ codebases. While popular solutions exist, they often require unsafe-Rust expertise or make assumptions about the code being exposed. These problems are compounded when you add experienced C++ engineers to the mix who are Rust novices.

Zngur, a relatively new Rust/C++ interop solution, takes a different approach: one that is both principled and delightful for experienced C++ developers. Taking the stance that C++ semantics are a superset of Rust's, calling Rust from C++ requires only declaring what should be exposed, and the other direction involves writing a simple layer on the C++ side.

This talk covers the basics of Zngur's architecture, how to use it, and practical considerations for applying it to a large C++ codebase.

Speakers

David Sankel

Principal Scientist, Adobe

David Sankel leads Adobe's Software Technology Lab, which is charged with improving software development across the industry through training, research, and library/tool design. He is an active member of Rust's t-lang/interop working group and the C++ Standardization Committee. His... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:45 EDT
Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Breakout Sessions

11:55 EDT

Detecting Borrow and Provenance Bugs Across Unsafe Rust and C/C++ Interoperability

Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT

Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Rust’s ownership system eliminates many memory errors at compile time, yet real-world systems routinely bypass these guarantees through unsafe code, raw pointers, and foreign interfaces to C/C++. In these contexts, failures often stem not from simple memory faults but from violations of Rust’s semantic aliasing and provenance rules, which may remain invisible to conventional debugging methods.

This talk demonstrates practical techniques for diagnosing such violations across unsafe Rust and cross-language boundaries. It contrasts byte-level memory instrumentation that detects spatial and temporal errors with semantic execution methods that track pointer provenance, initialization state, and language invariants. It further presents ownership-aware instrumentation strategies that selectively monitor high-risk pointers using lifetime information, reducing overhead while preserving detection capability. Finally, it shows how dynamic provenance tracking can enforce borrow permissions during execution, exposing aliasing violations introduced by foreign code.

The talk concludes with guidance on choosing appropriate methodologies based on precision, performance, and deployability in production systems.

Speakers

Joannah Nanjekye

Researcher, Canergie Mellon University

Joannah Nanjekye is a programming languages researcher/ special faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research spans programming language design, optimization and garbage collection. She is the author of the book, Python 2 and 3 Compatibility, published by Apress, but has also... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 EDT
Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Breakout Sessions

14:00 EDT

Compiling the Linux Kernel with gccrs

Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT

Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

After five years of intense development and focus on the standard library, the gccrs project is now finally able to compile existing production Rust code - with our first major milestone being the Linux kernel.

This talk will narrate the journey that the compiler underwent in order to handle the difficult Rust standard library as well as various crates within the kernel. We will explore curious Rust behavior, unassuming code snippets with complex compiler ramifications, as well as numerous hacks and trivia from both rustc and gccrs. The inner workings of a Rust compiler will be explored, and you will gain a deeper understanding of just how much work is done behind the scenes, and how that allows for the Rust programming language to be so ergonomic at the cost of the compiler engineers’ sanity.

Speakers

Pierre-Emmanuel Patry

Compiler Engineer, Embecosm

Toolchain engineer at Embecosm and lecturer at EPITA, Pierre-Emmanuel has been involved with GCC for three years. His work mostly revolves around the Rust frontend and the RISCV backend.

Arthur Cohen

Compiler Engineer, Embecosm

Arthur is a French compiler engineer working full-time on the gccrs project at Embecosm. He is responsible for many of the bugs within the macro expansion and name resolution passes of the frontend.

Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Breakout Sessions

14:50 EDT

The Future of Rust in Academia

Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT

Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Discover Rust's potential to shape the future of software engineering in academia! In this talk, we'll explore why Rust’s safety, performance, and growing industry demand make it the ideal language for modern curricula, empowering students to explore fundamentals, e.g. low-level hardware and language design, and thus preparing them best to build the future.

Speakers

Mordecai Etukudo

Software Engineer, Rust Africa

Mordecai Etukudo is a software engineer and community leader driving Rust adoption in academia and open-source to empower the next generation of developers.

Bart Massey

Portland State University, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Bart Massey is a 26-year Portland State University Assistant CS Professor with a PhD in AI. He has taught Rust, Embedded Rust and Rust Web to many students over about eight years. Bart is the founder and current director of Rust-Edu (https://rust-edu.org), promoting and improving... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:50 - 15:30 EDT
Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Breakout Sessions

16:00 EDT

Migrating RediSearch from C to Rust - Challenges and Techniques

Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT

Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Cybersecurity is more prominent than ever. Rust offers the perfect opportunity to modernize your companies tech stack, address tech debt, get shiny new developer features while also addressing security needs. But rewriting is big and scary. It can massively increase complexity, slow down engineering and put features at risk. We want to share our learnings from helping a client, RediSearch, migrate a complex and highly critical codebase from C to Rust. The challenges we faced and the solutions and techniques we developed with the client, both technical and organizational.

Speakers

Jonas Kruckenberg

Senior Software Engineering Consultant, Mainmatter

Jonas is an engineer at Mainmatter and creator of the k23 operating system. He has helped people to build fast, secure, cross-platform desktop apps through his work on Tauri and is deeply involved in open-source, local-first, and humane software. Outside of code, he sings in classical... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 16:00 - 16:40 EDT
Room 510bd | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Breakout Sessions