Rebecca Rumbul: Opening Remarks | RustConf 2026

Thank you very much. Now, welcome to RustConf, everyone. Um, it is amazing to be back here in Montreal. Uh, who was here two years ago? Awesome. Welcome back. Uh, we needed a bigger room. Uh, which is great. We're here with more Rustaceans than ever before. Okay. Um, the week belongs to you, everyone here in the room. RustConf is about you,

the community. And we don't get to speak to each other in real life very often. So, take advantage. I love coming to these live events because the energy, the conversations, the innovation, like things sparking off each other. This is a hugely energizing week. So, make the most of it, please. Um, and it has been a bumpy year since we were here. Well, since we were in Seattle last year.

So much has happened since the last RustConf. So, I kind of just want to take a moment. Rust, people in this room will remember when Rust was just a bit hype-y. It's not that anymore. Rust is like seriously mature now. You know, there's a steady drum beat of releases. We just hit 10

years running in Stack Overflow's most admired language. 10 years in a row. That's amazing. And that's that's because of you. This is the hard work that everyone has put in over the last 10 years. A lot of unglamorous work and thank, you know, thankless work a lot of the time. So, it's really great to to be able to see that not just we in this room know that Rust is amazing and the

hard work that's going on, but the big world sees it, too. Big world realizes that Rust is is huge. It's reliable. It's sustainable. It's here to stay. And we're seeing a huge amount of investment coming our way. We're also reaching out beyond our little bubble as well. It's not just Rust. I am so impressed by the fact that so much work is going on with Rust for Linux, Rust for CPython,