[conspire] 6/3/2026 GoLUG meeting, 7pm Eastern DAYLIGHT time

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Where: GoLUG Online: https://meet.jit.si/golug
When: Wednesday, 6/3/2026 7pm sharp Eastern DAYLIGHT time
      Arrive at 6:45pm for Microphone check & discussion
Who: Steve Litt, Troubleshooter, Developer, Tech Writer
What: Find out for yourself about Rust


It's coming. You've seen it. You've heard of Rust. You've seen the
evangelism. You've heard the skepticism. At the next GoLUG meeting, you
get to decide for yourself.

First, we'll discuss some Rust essential questions:

* Why use Rust?
* Why not use Rust?
* What is the optimal Rust mindset?
* What do the major Rust terminology terms mean?
	- mutability
	- ownership
	- borrowing
	- lifetime
	- Cargo
	- Crate
	- Statements;
	- Expressions
* Where does Rust surpass all others?
	- Hint, it's not safety or runtime speed.

Using the Rust compiler as your instructor, along with the Rust book
and a little AI thrown in, you'll see (or follow along if you'd like)
the following steps:

* Compile empty.whatever empty file
	- To start from absolute zero
* Read and use the error messages
* Read the documentation suggested by the error messages
* Get familiar with using the superior Rust documentation
* Hello World
* Build loops with for, while, loop, break and continue
	- Intro to mutability
* Use branching (if, else if, else)
* Handle command line arguments
* Convert strings to integers
* Function intro with types
	- Arguments with types
	- Return value with types
	- Handling references
	- Borrowing, ownership and lifetimes
* Multifile projects (time permitting)
* Closures (time permitting)

The final 20 minutes of this 2 hour presentation will get you
comfortable with the Rust's spectacular documentation system. Armed
with this presentation, Rust's documentation, and a little AI, if you
decide that Rust is a fit for your priorities and personality, you can
go as far as you want with Rust.

If you want to code along with the presentation, and this is
nice although not necessary, install Rust on your computer before
the presentation. It's very easy to install on most Linux distros, and I
assume on Windows, Mac, and BSD also.

Hope to see you there.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
GoLUG Publicity Coordinator
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