Rust Cross-Language Packaging: Wheels, Gems, NuGet, npm, Maven, and Native Artifacts

A practical two-hour session on Rust Cross-Language Packaging, focused on Wheels, Gems, NuGet, npm, Maven, and Native Artifacts. The session treats Rust as a native component exposed through C-compatible boundaries, with attention to packaging, ownership, host-runtime tests, and failure handling.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Rust Cross-Language Packaging
• Apply Wheels in a small working example
• Apply Gems in a small working example
• Apply NuGet in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.