About Me
Lily Mara (she/her) is a Software Developer based in San Francisco CA. She speaks domestically and internationally about Rust software development. She has been writing Rust since 2015, and using it as her primary professional language since 2019. She is the author of Refactoring to Rust, a book on the gradual introduction of Rust code in existing software systems, available now from Manning. She is currently developing software and writing about it at OneSignal.
| Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|
| Rust (Programming Language) | Rust (Chemical Reaction) |
| Python | Pythons |
| Go | The idea that Go doesn’t need generics |
| Automating the boring stuff | Hearing “But this is how we’ve always done it!” |
| Optimizing | Branch prediction failures |
| Open source | Open sores |
| Git | SVN |
| Soap | SOAP |
| Rhyme-based puns | Going for runs |
| When the computer goes “beep!” | When the computer goes “boop!” (scary, where did you learn that?) |