Rust For PHP Developers

You’ve probably heard stories about the Rust programming language, and you’re probably wondering why it’s becoming so popular. In this talk, you’ll see what Rust is from a PHP developer’s perspective. Get ready for a live-coding session, where we are going to recreate an existing PHP application in Rust, from scratch, and demystify all the awesomeness behind it.

[@myagmarsurensedjav]

Wow, very impressive talk. Thank you Nuno

[@wadecodez]

Well done! I use Laravel daily and was looking for a simple introduction to Rust because the borrow checker and lifetimes are a bit of a burden. Looking forward to what the Laravel community brings to Rust!

[@nunomaduro]

Glad it was helpful!

[@spicynoodle7419]

This is very interesting because PHP and Rust are polar opposites. The most dynamic language vs the most static language

[@joaosalomao6249]

Really cool! Thanks Nuno

[@saidbakr]

You are a magician! Wonderful.

[@vitorcampos7077]

Rust is awesome

[@ulrich-tonmoy]

Hows zig compared to rust in safety

[@neptronix]

You just convinced me to never try Rust!

[@Atiradeonvideo]

Nuno is doing so much stuff for the community, the language and the framework.

[@jonathanhavens7183]

Loved this. Personally, I've rarely seen rust tuts that provide insights in comparison to PHP. Laracasts series that expands on this video? Would be awesome! A Laracasts series that expands on this using full-blown framework like Rust's 'Rocket' would be incredible! Especially coming from you! Regardless, thank you for this Nuno!

[@johanrg70]

If you are using the terminal all the time, there's one shortcut that you should learn immediately and that is cmd+L or ctrl+L, this clears the terminal window, don't type clear.

[@fil22222]

But the tradeoff is you will forgot 'clear' command.

[@shubhamsahuSD]

While me commenting.. "Livewire is love"

[@HaraldEngels]

Wow, watching this video was an enlightenment. I will go on now to learn some Rust. What would have been of interest for me is, how to connect Rust via FFI with PHP.

[@Gramini]

An alternative approach to combining Rust with PHP would be a PHP extension written in Rust. There's a library/crate called "ext-php-rs" that does the heavy lifting. Might be easier than dealing with FFI.

[@rajadking]

Fantastic tut bro! I'm a laravel guy and we were internally talking about learning Rust for a fintech project and your video helps very much to begin the journey. PS: I was pleased to meet you in Laracon India 2023

[@rickybarabba7866]

Great presentation...very inspiring.

[@ErmandDurro]

Great video! Thank you Nuno 😃

[@MohammadJunaid96]

do you actually use light mode or is it just for the presentation? :|

[@nunomaduro]

It depends. I like to change.

[@amritasingh627]

loved the video, just one question why is it related to PHP? are we going to use Rust in PHP? I am confused.

[@yungifez]

It's never a bad idea to broaden your knowledge on different paradigms

[@nunomaduro]

Rust and PHP solve different problems. However, in this video, I try to explain Rust from a PHP developer perspective so it gets a little bit easier for them.

[@virtual-reality]

@@nunomaduro this is perfect. because i was having trouble with gravitational forces, but i was good at magnetism. so my teacher basically re-taught gravity stuff using magnetism. sometimes all you need is a "topic-adaptor" :)

[@hassewilson]

What editor are you using?

[@nunomaduro]

Sublime Text.

[@xipepe]

All of a sudden I want to try Rust without leaving PHP.

[@TioJobs]

Wow! watching now!

[@dmitriidemenev5258]

Hi, On 20:33 I would use pattern matching instead of dealing with indices ```rust match args.as_slice() { [] => unreachable!("env::args() is expected to always provide the executable path as the first arg"), [_executable] => display_help(), [_executable, command, c_args @ ..] => handle_command((command, c_args)), }; ``` And on 21:35 I would use plain `return` keyword instead of `process::exit(0)`. Even though it's rarely used, it's handy in this case.

[@bjo004]

06:42. Installing Rust on Windows is a bit more involving. You'll need some Windows SDKs and the curl command will not work on Windows.

[@sabuein]

Thank you.

[@danielfelipe7817]

I was waiting for this 🤩

[@Andrejs31]

Thank you for this!

[@Ste90etS]

Great! You should have a series “X for PHP developers” with other languages! You are great at explaining things in a comprehensible yet engaging way!

[@xipepe]

You described it very well.

[@kingbeencent]

I really learned a lot with this video!!

[@vitaliinevada7888]

Very cool talk, thanks a lot for the inspiration.

[@simpingsyndrome]

next Typescript for PHP developers wkwk

[@aleksandarsavanovic4746]

I think it wold be great idea for someon to make Rustvel, combining speed of the Rust and elegancy of Laravel, i know thre are many php specific "things" in Laravel but i don't think it would be that difficult to make same fucntionalities in Rust, plus Rust is great for OOP and functional programming....and you can make front and back end with it so the framework could highspeed fullstac.

[@chibuzorogbu4081]

sorry no reflections in Rust, but then again there is the crowd for rust that tend to think differently about all batteries-included frameworks.

[@edism]

​@@chibuzorogbu4081 exactly, in Rust, you'd need to rely on static analysis and code generation rather than runtime introspection. Rust’s macro system and generics can help here. Procedural macros allow for compile-time code introspection and manipulation, emulating Laravel’s features. This approach benefits from Rust's performance, security, and reliability, avoiding the overhead of runtime reflection.