In this blog post, I am writing about my experience participating in the MozillaTN community meetup held at Coimbatore this January.

Mozilla is a global community of passionate people working to protect the web as an open resource. I was always interested in Mozilla for 2 reasons. First, Mozilla is one of the pioneers of the open source movement. As far as I remember, Mozilla Firefox was the first open source software I have ever used. Second, Mozilla and Mozillians believe that the Web is for everyone. They care about privacy and web literacy.

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In this post, I am sharing my goals for the next 6 months.

The reason I’m doing this is to keep myself motivated and also to let other mozillians know what I’m up to.

1. Learn Rust. Learning more about the rust language is my first priority. In this 6 months I want to learn about:
   • Unit Testing
   • Networking in rust
   • basics of functional programming
   • If possible, using threads in rust
2. Contribute to some simple, open source rust projects.
3. Learn Deep learning and contribute to DeepRust crate.
4. Contribute to Servo, the Rust browser engine. I plan to first try out the servo engine and find ways to contribute to it.
5. Write tutorials. I am going to write beginner level tutorials to help those who are just starting out.

A few days back I came to know about the MozillaTN meetup which is going to happen at Coimbatore this January. I haven’t met any mozillians yet. So I am super excited about this meetup. I am looking forward to attending this meetup. I wish to meet some rust developers and do something awesome with them. :)

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The Rust programming language

Rust is a system programming language that focusses on three aspects: Speed, Safety and Concurrency. It is being developed by an active community of programmers. Its development is officially sponsored by Mozilla.

Installing rust

First, we have to install the rust compiler which is called rustc and cargo ,rust’s package manager. I recommend installing rustc and cargo using rustup. Why rustup? Before answering that I have to mention that rustc comes in three versions : Stable , Beta and Nightly.

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