Lead Rust Advocate @ Canonical

Ed Jones

Lead Rust Advocate @ Canonical

Ed is obsessed with code quality and all things open-source. At work, he pushes for standardisation in both new and existing projects, helping train new developers in good practices. Outside of work, he programs quite a bit and has worked on a range of things, including a typesetter, a Blender extension and an OpenTTD AI. The rest of his time he spends gaming long hours into the night, finding diamonds in Minecraft or getting lost in Oblivion.

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This edition

Safe Arbitrary Code Execution is the Future of Config

October 07 2025 - 14:30 (45 min )

Configuration is an interface between the system and its user. Complex systems can require complex configuration, causing the user to reach for programmatic concepts to make their config files more manageable. All too often, these programmatic concepts are applied in an unplanned way, leading to awkward, accidental Turing completeness and hacky-feeling formats. In this talk, we explore providing config as code, preserving elegance, maintaining safety and giving users superpowers.

LEVEL: Advanced

Safe Arbitrary Code Execution is the Future of Config

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