Rust Nation UK - Track 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters link timestamps into this stream to cite Google's claims that Rust teams are about twice as productive as C++ teams and on par with Go teams.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2024 to 2026.
What it is
An 11-hour live stream of Track 1 at the Rust Nation UK conference in 2024. It includes Google's Lars Bergstrom keynote on Rust adoption, productivity, and comparisons with C++ and Go.
What people said
Recommends steveklabnik · 2024-03 · Hacker News · on “Google's Lars Bergstrom: Rust teams are twice as productive as teams using C++”
For everyone asking: in the talk, Lars mentions that they often rely on self-reported anonymous data. But in this case, Google is large enough that teams have developed similar systems and/or literally re-written things, and so this claim comes from analyzing projects before and after these re-writes, so you’re comparing like teams and like projects. Timestamped: [this video] Some additional context on these two specific claims: Google found that porting Go to Rust "it takes about the same sized team about the same time to build it, so that's no loss of productivity" and "we do see some benefits from it, we see reduced memory usage [...] and we also see a decreased defect rate over time" On re-wr
Cites Mawr · 2024-03 · Hacker News · on “Google's Lars Bergstrom: Rust teams are twice as productive as teams using C++”
More timestamps: - Graph on time to become sufficiently productive in Rust to comfortably contribute to a codebase: [this video] - Graph on time to become as productive in Rust as in other languages: [this video] - "Yes, it takes some time, but people do feel like they are as productive in Rust as they were in the language that they previously were writing in." [this video] - Graph on the ease of code review in Rust vs other languages: [this video] - Graph on confidence in Rust code correctness: [this video] - Code example vs C++ #1: [this video] - Code example vs C++ #2: [this video]
Cites weinzierl · 2024-08 · Hacker News · on “Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead”
> "Introducing a junior person to a large Rust system would still take a year, because it is so much more difficult than Go." A recent study done at Google disagrees with this assessment. ""it takes about the same sized team about the same time to build it, so that's no loss of productivity", said Google's Director of Engineering Lars Bergstrom about porting Go to Rust in the talk [this video]
Cites ModernMech · 2026-10 · Hacker News · on “How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026”
And since you bring up Go and contrast the compile time with Rust, it's been experienced at Google (and also Volvo and other places) that Rust and Go teams are as productive whereas C++ is less than half as productive: [this video] So the focus on Rust compile time is misplaced. It's not a big deal in terms of overall productivity.