Chandler Carruth: Memory Safety Everywhere with Both Rust and Carbon | RustConf 2025

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Slides: https://chandlerc.blog/slides/2025-rustconf-memory-safety-everywhere Abstract: This talk will compare and contrast some of the interesting differences in the approaches taken in Rust and what we’re exploring in the Carbon Language experiment. Carbon was created to find out what a maximally incremental path to evolve and migrate off of C++ and onto a programming language with memory safety might look like, and whether it would be an effective way to bring memory safety to the largest-scale and most-brownfield of C++ software ecosystems. Presenter: Chandler Carruth is the technical lead for Google’s programming languages and software foundations. He is one of the Carbon Language leads, and has worked extensively on the C++ programming language as well as the Clang and LLVM compiler infrastructure. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system and made guest appearances helping maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disavows all knowledge of the contents of his Master’s thesis. When not hammering away on a weirdly shaped keyboard, he enjoys sushi, fine dining, brown spirits, and everything about wine.