Possible talk ideas

[mason-larobina]

In the last month I've been playing with:

• Configuring YouCompleteMe + vim with GoTo definiton support.
• Rust C bindgen + cargo + build.rs
• Porting C functions to rust piecemeal in a large-ish C code base.
• Hunting transliteration bugs with git bisect.

Happy to create some talks or interactive sessions for any of the above. Perhaps a "Port Some C" hello world tutorial.

[caspark]

Personally I'd be most interested in the bindgen talk, because I know very little on the topic. The final 2 seem like they belong together.

I think the first one would be better if it includes a bit of an overview of the IDE-like landscape, just because I suspect people aren't going to remember specifics of configuring a specific vim extension (or at least I wouldn't)? Possible topics to extend with might be racer, clippy, cargo-watch, rustfmt, and of course the alpha rust language server, though not sure anyone has integrated it into any editors yet..

Let me know which talk you most want to give in Jan (say 9th or 10th), and I'll update the issue summary to suit (or feel free to do it yourself).

[caspark]

Hey @mason-larobina , were you still interested in giving a talk on bindgen/cargo/build.rs or on C -> Rust transliteration? I saw just recently that bindgen now has at least some C++ support, and some unforking just happened, both of which might be worth mentioning (if you know the alluded-to history - I don't).

[mason-larobina]

I'm in the USA until late Feb and so far I haven't found time to prepare a talk.

I was working on a project similar to https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty however since it's release I'm not sure if I'll be continuing it.

[caspark]

Okay, no problem. For what it's worth, I was pretty interested to find about alacritty (saw it when it was announced); depending on where you got up to before the abandonment-intent kicked in, it might still be interesting to hear about.

[bitshifter]

Sorry @mason-larobina I only noticed this issue after I felt it was a bit too late to ask you to speak at our 15/5 meetup. We're always looking for speakers though so perhaps next time if you are still interested.

[mason-larobina]

No worries Cameron!

Since my last update in Feb I've been working on this project "full" parttime. It's coming along nicely and I've finished translating the 3k lines of C. I'm refactoring it now to be idiomatic rust. I'd love to talk about this after it's released.

If there's a way to tag this issue 'low priority' / 'future' that would probably be best.