The topic of the talk was how Rust eliminates classes of errors (and security issues) that are being very frequently found and reported. An example given: you can’t forget to lock/unlock when using the locking types in Rust.

That Rust can be (and has been) used in AI and crypto projects isn’t relevant to this argument.

I expected to be trying for a while, but I got mine on my first try, just before the scheduled time (30 minutes ago). Pretty lucky.