Rust in Peace
A Neon Law Foundation talk for Rust NYC on how we use Rust to improve access to justice: deterministic workflows from law — statute to Cucumber feature to template to notation — dissected one modular, attorney-gated step at a time, with every code slide an exact copy of the shipped repository kept honest by a grounding test.
How we use Rust to improve access to justice — a Neon Law Foundation talk for Rust NYC.
This talk comes from the Foundation itself — the 501(c)(3) that stewards Navigator, the open-source harness behind a law firm that drafts, checks, and files routine legal work. We started as software engineers. We became lawyers. We kept writing Rust — one Cargo workspace, every executable and library in a single language. The thesis of the half hour: our goal is to create deterministic workflows from law, and a language that is widely available — free, permissively licensed, governed by a non-profit — is what lets a small nonprofit build them with the same first-class tooling the largest companies run on. Every code block below is an exact copy from the repository, kept honest by a test that fails the build if a slide drifts from the source. The steps are the talk, beat by beat; the "Copy as Markdown" button hands you the whole thing to take home.