🏆 100 Most Watched Rust Talks Of 2024

A complete list of the top 100 Rust talks of 2024 ordered by the number of views.

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Welcome to another special edition of Tech Talks Weekly!

Lately, I’ve put together a few compilations of the most-watched talks of 2024 for different programming languages. Since then, I’ve been getting a lot of requests to make one for Rust.

And here it is! Below, you will find the 100 most watched Rust talks presented in 2024 across almost every Software Engineering conference! If you spot a missing conference, please report it here.

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🏆 100 Most Watched Rust Talks Of 2024

1. "Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet"

   +114k views ⸱ 09 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 16s

2. "Jon Gjengset - Towards Impeccable Rust"

   +35k views ⸱ 03 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 59s

3. "Chris Biscardi - Bevy: A case study in ergonomic Rust"

   +19k views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 25s

4. "Through the Fire and the Flames - Jon Gjengset | EuroRust 2024"

   +18k views ⸱ 01 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 09s

5. "Nicholas Matsakis - Rust 2024 and beyond"

   +16k views ⸱ 05 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 48s

6. "Rainer Stropek - Memory Management in Rust"

   +14k views ⸱ 26 Jan 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 48s

7. "Xilem: Let's Build High Performance Rust UI - Raph Levien"

   +13k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 47s

8. "Lars Bergstrom - Beyond Safety and Speed: How Rust Fuels Team Productivity"

   +13k views ⸱ 03 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 19s

9. "Ben Wishovich - Full Stack Rust - Building Rust Websites with Leptos"

   +12k views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 54s

10. "Luca Palmieri - Pavex: re-imaging API development in Rust"

    +12k views ⸱ 04 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 53s

11. "Carl Kadie - 9 Rules for Creating (...) Data Structures - Rust Linz"

    +10k views ⸱ 26 Jan 2024 ⸱ 00h 34m 42s

12. "Memory Safety: Rust vs. C - Robert Seacord - NDC TechTown 2024"

    +10k views ⸱ 06 Jan 2025 ⸱ 01h 00m 54s

13. "Async Rust in Embedded Systems with Embassy - Dario Nieuwenhuis"

    +10k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 36m 16s

14. "Andre Bogus - Easy Mode Rust"

    +10k views ⸱ 04 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 37m 44s

15. "Rust Vienna Jan 2024 - Serverless Data Pipelines in Rust by Michele Vigilante"

    +7k views ⸱ 28 Feb 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 02s

16. "Visual Application Design for Rust - Rik Arends"

    +6k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 32s

17. "Project Syn - Simon Gerber - Rust Zürisee March 2024"

    +6k views ⸱ 11 Mar 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 50s

18. "Massimiliano Mantione - Object Oriented Programming, and Rust - Rust Linz"

    +6k views ⸱ 26 Jan 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 38s

19. "Diplomat - Idiomatic Multi-Language APIs - Robert Bastian - Rust Zürisee March 2024"

    +5k views ⸱ 17 Mar 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 33s

20. "Crossing The Barrier Between Kotlin and Rust (and back)! | Tarik Eshaq"

    +5k views ⸱ 23 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 37m 41s

21. "The first six years in the development of Polonius - Amanda Stjerna | EuroRust 2024"

    +5k views ⸱ 14 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 52s

22. "Build bigger in less time: code testing beyond the basics - Predrag Gruevski | EuroRust 2024"

    +4k views ⸱ 04 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 20s

23. "The Impact of Memory Allocators on Performance: A Deep Dive - Arthur Pastel | EuroRust 2024"

    +4k views ⸱ 08 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 39s

24. "The Rustvolution: How Rust Is the Future of Cloud Native - Flynn, Buoyant"

    +4k views ⸱ 22 Mar 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 51s

25. "I/O in Rust: the whole story - Vitaly Bragilevsky"

    +4k views ⸱ 28 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 02s

26. "Writing a SD Card driver in Rust - Jonathan Pallant | EuroRust 2024"

    +4k views ⸱ 20 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 37s

27. "Building an extremely fast Python package manager, in Rust - Charlie Marsh | EuroRust 2024"

    +4k views ⸱ 03 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 36s

28. "Amanieu D'Antras - The path to a stable ABI for Rust"

    +4k views ⸱ 04 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 17s

29. "Frédéric Ameye - Renault want to sell cars with rust!"

    +4k views ⸱ 03 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 40m 05s

30. "Renaissance of Terminal User Interfaces with Rust - Orhun Parmaksız | EuroRust 2024"

    +3k views ⸱ 25 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 59s

31. "Rust-ifying Your C# Codebase: A Tale of Adventure and Transformation - Chris Woody Woodruff"

    +3k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 48s

32. "Robius: Immersive and Seamless Multiplatform App Development in Rust - Kevin Boos"

    +3k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 39s

33. "Windows Kernel Programming with Rust - Matthias Heiden | EuroRust 2024"

    +3k views ⸱ 26 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 38s

34. "Nikita Lapkov - Type-safe and fault-tolerant mesh services with Rust"

    +3k views ⸱ 05 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 22s

35. "Nicholas Yang - Porting Turborepo From Go To Rust"

    +3k views ⸱ 05 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 07s

36. "A gentle introduction to procedural macros - Sam Van Overmeire | EuroRust 2024"

    +3k views ⸱ 05 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 41s

37. "Shachar Langbeheim - async & FFI - not exactly a love story - Rust Linz"

    +3k views ⸱ 26 Jan 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 32s

38. "Fast and efficient network protocols in Rust - Nikita Lapkov | EuroRust 2024"

    +3k views ⸱ 27 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 55s

39. "Unleashing 🦀 The Ferris Within - Victor Ciura | EuroRust 2024"

    +3k views ⸱ 13 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 59s

40. "Learning Rust the wrong way. - Ólafur Waage - NDC Sydney 2024"

    +2k views ⸱ 14 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 14s

41. "Pietro Albini - How Ferrocene qualified the Rust Compiler"

    +2k views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 55s

42. "Non-binary Rust: Between Safe and Unsafe - Boxy Uwu | EuroRust 2024"

    +2k views ⸱ 15 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 15s

43. "Mithun Hunsur - Ambient: A Rust and WebAssembly Runtime for Cross-Platform Multiplayer Games"

    +2k views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 00s

44. "Talks - Charlie Marsh: Ruff: An Extremely Fast Python Linter and Code Formatter, Written in Rust"

    +2k views ⸱ 28 Aug 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 39s

45. "Runtime Scripting for Rust Applications - Niklas Korz | EuroRust 2024"

    +2k views ⸱ 12 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 41s

46. "Kubernetes Controllers in Rust: Fast, Safe, Sane - Matei David, Buoyant"

    +2k views ⸱ 22 Mar 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 34s

47. "Overengineering max(a, b) Mixed Comparison Functions, Common References & Rust Lifetime Annotations"

    +2k views ⸱ 07 Nov 2024 ⸱ 01h 09m 24s

48. "Aida Getoeva - Async C++/Rust Interoperability"

    +2k views ⸱ 19 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 05s

49. "Compression Carcinized: Implementing zlib in Rust - Folkert de Vries"

    +2k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 36m 06s

50. "JD Nose - Rust Infrastructure: What it takes to keep Rust running"

    +2k views ⸱ 03 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 10s

51. "Rust Poisoning My Wrist for Fun - Ulf Lilleengen"

    +1k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 08s

52. "Powerful Macros, Good IDE Support, No Headaches. Choose Two - Lukas Wirth | EuroRust 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 03 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 27s

53. "From C to Rust: Bringing Rust Abstractions to Embedded Linux - Fabien Parent, Linaro"

    +1k views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 49s

54. "Tauri: Build Secure and Reliable Native Apps using Rust and Elm by Jonas Kruckenberg |Lambda Days 23"

    +1k views ⸱ 08 Feb 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 37s

55. "Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla"

    +1k views ⸱ 22 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 40s

56. "Daniel McKenna - Creating a Text-To-Speech System in Rust"

    +1k views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 16s

57. "David Haig - What’s that behind your ear? An open source hearing aid in Rust."

    +1k views ⸱ 04 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 03s

58. "Everything about media files in WASM: fonts, images, audios all in rust by Dmitriy Kovalenko"

    +1k views ⸱ 18 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 19s

59. "Building a Hypervisor Firewall with nftables and Rust - Stefan Hanreich, Proxmox Server Solutions"

    +1k views ⸱ 04 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 43s

60. "Code to contract to code: making ironclad APIs - Adam Chalmers | EuroRust 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 20 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 33s

61. "ThRust in Space: Initial Momentum - Michaël Melchiore"

    +1k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 39m 14s

62. "gRPC Rust - Doug Fawley, Google, and Lucio Franco, Turso"

    +1k views ⸱ 04 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 38s

63. "Rust Is One Of The Most Energy Efficient Programming Languages: Florian Valeye"

    +1k views ⸱ 15 Jan 2024 ⸱ 00h 13m 18s

64. "Fortifying Rust's FFI with Enscapsulated Functions - Leon Schuermann"

    +1k views ⸱ 04 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 49s

65. "Practical Rust for Web Audio - Attila Haraszti | EuroRust 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 06 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 56s

66. "Importance of a Common Data Layer for BI and AI | Metin Sarikaya | Conf42 Rustlang 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 22 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 15s

67. "Konstantin Grechishchev - Java and Rust Integration"

    +1k views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 15s

68. "Augmented docs: a love letter to rustdoc and docs.rs - Francois Mockers | EuroRust 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 07 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 57s

69. "JavaScript: Empowered by Rust"

    +1k views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 49s

70. "Rust 101: Understand the Hype by MATTSI JANSKY"

    +1k views ⸱ 15 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 01s

71. "My Journey from WebDev to Medical Visualization Rustacean - David Peherstorfer | EuroRust 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 20 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 05s

72. "Craig's Amazing Rust Spectacular (brought to you by Rust-eze) - Craig Spence - NDC Sydney 2024"

    +1k views ⸱ 11 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 37m 15s

73. "Tim Janus - Let's get interdisciplinary: Rust Design Patterns for Chemical Plants"

    +900 views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 01s

74. "Proving macro expansion with expandable - Sasha Pourcelot | EuroRust 2024"

    +900 views ⸱ 11 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 27s

75. "Generating ergonomic C++ APIs using Rustdoc, procedural macros, and Serde - Björn Wieczoreck"

    +900 views ⸱ 29 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 54s

76. "Let's Do Some Data Engineering With Rust and Delta Lake!"

    +900 views ⸱ 23 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 16s

77. "Linting with Dylint - Samuel Moelius | EuroRust 2024"

    +900 views ⸱ 20 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 45s

78. "Rust Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann - Henk Oordt | EuroRust 2024"

    +900 views ⸱ 20 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 45s

79. "Talks - David Hewitt: How Python Harnesses Rust through PyO3"

    +800 views ⸱ 29 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 02s

80. "My discovery of Rust: Why is it a Game Changer? by AYOUB ALOUANE"

    +800 views ⸱ 15 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 34s

81. "[SOAP'23] Flux: Refinement types for Rust"

    +800 views ⸱ 30 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 38s

82. "Marco Ieni - How Rust makes open-source easier"

    +800 views ⸱ 10 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 38s

83. "Mike Kraus - Polishing Python: Preventing Performance Corrosion with Rust | PyData Amsterdam 2024"

    +800 views ⸱ 22 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 43s

84. "Building Serverless AI Workflows with Wasm+Rust - Miley Fu, WasmEdge"

    +700 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 52s

85. "Natalie Serebryakova - Rustic Persistence: Automating PVC Lifecycles with Rust in Kubernetes"

    +600 views ⸱ 11 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 42s

86. "Remote blinky on nRF52 using Rust - Eivind Bergem - NDC TechTown 2024"

    +500 views ⸱ 08 Jan 2025 ⸱ 00h 47m 52s

87. "Nichita Morcotilo - Bridging the worlds: pixi reimplements pip and conda in Rust"

    +500 views ⸱ 26 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 16s

88. "Creating Versatile AI Agents Through Wasm+Rust - Miley Fu, WasmEdge"

    +500 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 24s

89. "Unwrap()Ing Rust on Embedded Linux - Thomas Sarlandie, Memfault"

    +400 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 06s

90. "AI, Rust, and Resilience: Key Software Trends Seen by the QCon San Francisco 2024 Program Committee"

    +300 views ⸱ 07 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 31s

91. "Accelerating Python with Rust: The PyO3 Revolution — Roshan R Chandar"

    +300 views ⸱ 02 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 32s

92. "Zander Matheson Do Pythons Rust? How we used PyO3 to build a Python Stream Processor w/ a Rust Heart"

    +200 views ⸱ 25 Nov 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 54s

93. "Departure from the SDK and Plugin Framework: Let’s Add Some Rust to Tofu - Florian Lemaitre, Aneo"

    +200 views ⸱ 20 Mar 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 38s

94. "Go Containerless on Kubernetes with WebAssembly and Rust | Deepu K Sasidharan | Conf42 Rustlang 2024"

    +200 views ⸱ 22 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 34s

95. "Linkerd Project Update: VM Support, Ingress, Security on the Edge, and Rust"

    +200 views ⸱ 21 Mar 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 47s

96. "A New Way to Build for the Web | Andreas Moller | Conf42 Rustlang 2024"

    +200 views ⸱ 22 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 24s

97. "Rust and Docker: Let's build an AI-powered App! by Francesco Ciulla"

    +100 views ⸱ 23 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 29s

98. "[PLDI'23] Flux: Liquid Types for Rust"

    +100 views ⸱ 02 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 31s

99. "[OOPSLA23] Verus: Verifying Rust Programs using Linear Ghost Types"

    +100 views ⸱ 14 Feb 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 28s

100. "[OOPSLA23] A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust"

     +100 views ⸱ 14 Feb 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 36s

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