Rust is Not About Memory Safety - Making Incorrect Programs Harder to Write

Explore why Rust programmers are so enthusiastic about their language in this 40-minute keynote presentation from NDC TechTown 2025. Discover that Rust's appeal extends far beyond memory safety to encompass a broader philosophy of making incorrect programs harder to write. Learn about the language features that contribute to Rust's reliability, including the strong type system, strongly typed error handling, absence of implicit conversions, well-designed APIs for Options and Result types, sum types with pattern matching, and the typestate pattern. Understand how these elements work together to create programs that "just work" and examine whether this comprehensive approach to correctness explains the passionate advocacy of Rust developers in the programming community.