Vjekoslav Krajačić – File Pilot: Inside the Engine – BSC 2025

Very good talk on how to write C in a way that is not ancient and safe. He used arenas pretty extensively and not only it’s simpler (at least from the example), it seems much safe with regards to lifetimes. Certain things from C that are ancient were also discussed like how C’s string is bad for performance (well no shit but a lot C people will fight you for this lmao including the author of the video). I do hope that in the future Rust has better support for granular, allocation so we can also achieve these things!

Was a bit sad that the talk ended early, really wanted to know more about how the hell it is so small and so fast but overall fantastic talk and fantasic piece of software.