In his #rustconf25 talk, "Rewrite, Optimize, Repeat," Luca Palmieri walked through a real C-to-Rust migration — including discarded designs, profiling rabbit holes, and the breakthroughs that made the Rust version faster and safer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0AUP2OgppE
Talks that share concrete tradeoffs and hard-earned wins like this resonate strongly with the #rustconf audience.
