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Cross-Platform Music Software with Rust

00:00 - 00:00 | Friday 31st October 2025 |
Beginner
Intermediate

"The Rust programming language recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of its 1.0 release. A decade later, and Rust has become an increasingly popular choice for projects that require high performance and system-level control.

In this talk I'll be giving an overview of the current state of the Rust music software ecosystem, and we'll explore the latest developments in tooling, libraries, and best practices.

I'll also take you on a practical tour of a reusable project template for Rust-based music apps that can be distributed as plugins, on mobile or desktop operating systems, or in web browsers."

Ian Hobson

Ian Hobson is a music software engineer with over 15 years of experience building realtime audio apps and plugins.

Previously he worked at Ableton as Technical Principal for DSP and Devices.

Since 2019 he has been working as a consultant with startups and organizations including Meta, Lofelt, Super Hi-Fi, Pixtunes, and INA GRM.

He is also the creator of the Koto programming language, and is now spending his spare time building music apps.

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