Rust Workshop

The Rust Workshop is an event organized by the CLIC IT Team to introduce participants to the Rust Programming Language. It consist of an overview of the basic syntax of Rust, as well as an explanation of lifetimes, the borrow checker, and various concepts unique to Rust. It is designed to be accessible to any individual who has experience programming in another language, such as Scala or C. No prior experience in Rust is required.

It was given for the first time in Spring 2025 to a group of CLIC comittee & commission members and friends, as a first test of the workshop. It lasted about 5 hours in total.

Resources

The workshop resources include the slides, the code examples that were shown with live explanations, and the exercises, which can ideally be put in individual playgrounds to be more conveniently shared with participants.

Organisation

For the first edition, there were under 10 participants, so the workshop was given at the CLIC Office from about 13h to 18h, with the projector and tables moved to make space. Depending on the budget, snacks or pizzas could be purchased for the event.