Name: Keynote: Rust, In Sickness & In Health
Start: 2026-09-10T09:00:00-0400
End: 2026-09-10T09:30:00-0400

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT

What does it actually mean to bet a company on a particular programming language? Seven years ago, Bryan Cantrill helped start Oxide Computer Company with Rust at the center of that bet, and spent the years since finding out the answer to this question.
In this talk, Bryan will share how his thinking about Rust has evolved, from the earliest infatuation to the honeymoon to the many ups and several downs of a long, deep relationship with the language, tested across bootloaders, an operating system, a hypervisor, a distributed storage system, a network operating system, compilers, and debuggers. Bryan will get into where he thinks Rust is strong, where it still has real gaps, and what he thinks the language and ecosystem need to prioritize as Rust moves further into systems’ future.

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Bryan Cantrill

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Oxide Computer

Bryan Cantrill is a software engineer who has spent three decades at the hardware/software interface. He is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, which builds rack-scale computers for the post-cloud era. Prior to Oxide, he spent nearly a decade at Joyent, a cloud computing... Read More →

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

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