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Rust Nation is Europe's largest conference dedicated to the Rust programming language. Returning to London on 18th-19th February 2026, get your spot now!
London, UK
Joined June 2022
π£ We are incredibly proud to announce that Zhouxuan Tang will be joining us at Rust Nation UK! Zhouxuan will be presenting: "rk8s: A Lightweight Rust-based Alternative to Kubernetes" π rk8s is a project implemented entirely in Rust that simplifies container orchestration.
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β½οΈ Diesel Lovers! We have something just for you! OK not JUST for you, it's for the Diesel lovers, the Diesel curious and dare we say, the Diesel sceptics. You can join Diesel's lead developer, Georg Semmler himself, for a full-day, hands-on workshop exploring Diesel β Rustβs
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We are excited to announce Cheuk Tin Ho as a speaker at Rust Nation UK 26! Cheuk served as a director of the @ThePSF (Python Software Foundation) and co-founded the global @HumbleData workshop. As a Developer Advocate for @jetbrains, she is sharing tools and knowledge with the
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Brilliant idea, kickass TUI! π§ toktop β htop(1) but for LLM usage & costs. π₯ Cost monitor for OpenAI + Anthropic. β‘ Instantly switch between providers, view daily/weekly/monthly spend. π¦ Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs β GitHub: https://t.co/zYsSD93oo9
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It's Community Friday, and we're celebrating Georg Semmler , the force behind the indispensable Diesel ORM. Georgβs work is a masterclass in community leadership. He doesn't just maintain a foundational library; he uses the challenges he finds to push the entire ecosystem
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π¨ Speaker Announcement! We are thrilled to welcome Joshua Mo! π¦ Josh is a DevRel Engineer at Playgrounds Analytics Inc and the maintainer of Rig (the leading open-source Rust framework for agentic AI). π He'll be presenting: "Rust & Rig: Building for Stability in a Rapidly
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π¨ Speaker Announcement! Vitaly Bragilevsky (@VBragilevsky) will be speaking at Rust Nation UK 26! π With over 20 years of experience teaching programming languages and as the author of 'Haskell in Depth', Vitaly has dedicated his career to deepening the community's
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π¨ We are thrilled to announce Lyle Dean, Lead Engineer at loveholidays, will speak at Rust Nation UK 26! π€ Lyle will be taking the stage to demystify one of Rust's most advanced topics with his talk: "Demystifying LLVM: Writing Your First Compiler - The Good, The Bad, The
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π¨ We are thrilled to announce our very first speaker for Rust Nation UK: Jon Seager, VP of Engineering for Ubuntu at @Canonical! π¦ As the leader behind the "Oxidizing Ubuntu" initiative, he's at the forefront of adopting Rust in one of the world's most critical open-source
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π Hate when a NULL from a LEFT JOIN crashes your app at runtime? π§ A new Diesel ORM update makes that a compile-time error instead. A fantastic quality-of-life improvement for anyone writing database code in Rust. π¦ Explained in his blog by Diesel's lead dev, Georg Semmler:
blog.weiznich.de
A short report on adding support for querying SQL `VIEW`s to Diesel and a discussion around how to infer whether a `VIEW` field might be `NULL` or not
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πIt's Community Friday, And this week, something a little different! We're celebrating all the companies who support Rust Nation UK. These companies are more than just our previous sponsors; they're pillars of our community. Representing industries from AI, to recruitment,
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This is the experience we live for. It's proof that the conversations started on the Rust Nation UK stage don't end there. They go on to shape the entire industry. https://t.co/dptEcKT7jA
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Then, it went mainstream. Major tech publications like @TheRegister picked up the story, taking the conversation to a global audience. The official @rustaceanfm podcast even did a follow-up interview to dive deeper into the data. π
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First, the developer world ignited.π₯ The talk hit the front page of @hackernews and @Reddit , sparking massive, passionate debates among thousands of engineers about the real-world productivity gains of Rust over C++. The community was buzzing. π
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Sometimes a conference talk is so powerful, it breaks out of the room and sparks a global conversation. For us, that moment came in 2024 when @larsberg_ (Director of Engineering at Google) shared a single stat: rewriting C++ services in Rust led to a ">2x decrease" in build &
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Have you picked your workshop yet? Our π¦ Rust Nation UK 2026 Workshops are filling up! A full day of hands-on learning led by some of the most experienced Rustaceans in the community. From async programming to WebAssembly, and the brand new Diesel workshop, each session is
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