DevLab Rust 2025

Evening lectures on Rust in Ghent Nov - Dec 2025 for experienced developers.

Registration is possible for the whole series or individual sessions that interest you: on pretix.eu. Do this several days in advance as the ticket shop closes.

View the topics covered: course plan.

Guidelines

Before the first class:

• Install Rust as explained in rustup.rs/.
  • For Windows users: don't use winget or chocolatey
  • For Nix users: use fenix overlay and dev shell in flake.nix
• Install any editor that supports rust-analyzer and compile a very simple "hello world" program to setup your system

Before every class:

• Avoid spending time setting up your network, cloning, pulling or installing during the session. The time in sessions is very limited and should be spent on Rust.
• Read the relevant chapters in the official Rust book about the previous and upcoming session.
• Finish important exercises and prepare questions. Feel free to ask for PR reviews.

During in-person sessions:

• Follow along with the presentation when new material arrives and ask questions
• Open the exercise files located in the examples or tests folder of session X.
• Turn of AI tools and read the assignment, try to solve, ask for help anytime

Test your (partial) solution:

• For examples with main in examples/: cargo run --example fibonacci
• For examples with #[cfg(test)] in examples/: cargo test --example fibonacci