RUSTATHON2K18
10-Feb-2018
135 students from various institutes in and around Mangaluru attended the Rustathon2K18, a workshop organized by Mozilla club in association with SHINE, Sahyadri Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and New Age Incubation Network (NAIN).
The workshop began with Mr. Praveen Kamath, the Chief Guest, speaking volumes about the latest trends in the tech business and how student could hope to utilize them. As a Group Project Manager at Infosys he was very interactive and spoke a lot about emerging technologies and their impact on the future of technology. He expounded his belief that technology will continue to develop and improve the quality of life.
Rust is a systems programming language important to the future of the web. It runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. It is a programming language that’s focused on safety, speed, and concurrency. Its design lets you create programmes that have the performance and control of a low-level language, but with the powerful abstractions of a high-level language. It was with the intention of bringing about awareness about this language that brought in Rustathon. Mr. Jayesh KR, Mozilla Tech Speaker spoke on the Amazon Web services with RUST and introduced the students with the basics of Rust language. Mr. Jayesh Katta Ramalingaiah is a Full Stack Software developer. He is very innovative and has an artistic perception of technology and business. He is an expert in various domains such as IoT, Android and Web and also good at developing Mobile Applications. He is currently engaged as an Android Developer in BFS Domain at TCS in Mumbai, India. Mr. Krishna Kumar T, Rust developer and embedded systems enthusiast from ThoughtWorks helped the students build an UI for the Web Services.
The workshop took a livelier turn when the speakers had an interactive quiz session and participants won several goodies from Hackerearth, one of the sponsors for the event. The event was primarily sponsored by Research and Design Lab. The Technology partner was AWS Activate and the Innovation partner was Hackerearth.
“This workshop indeed gave me a kickstart towards learning the Rust language and I’m looking forward in attending their workshops in the future”, said Musthaq, an attendee of the workshop.
