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Allen Wyma talks with Orhun Parmaksiz about Ratatui, a TUI library for Rust to create beautiful console-based applications in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Orhun Parmaksiz
• [@01:21] - Origins of the project and overview of TUIs
• [@09:32] - Rebranding from tui-rs and continuing previous work
• [@14:50] - Documentation of Ratatui
• [@16:18] - Collecting community feedback
• [@22:00] - Custom designs in Ratatui (ratatui-splash-screen)
• [@22:19] - Other terminal UI projects
• [@25:32] - Status and upcoming directions for Ratatui
• [@27:55] - Closing discussion

Other Resources

• Orhun’s Github

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Allen Wyma talks with Robert Balicki about Isograph, a framework powered by Rust to speed up your React app development.

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Timestamps

• [@10:48] - GraphQL basics
• [@21:20] - The role of Rust within the project
• [@32:24] - Isograph installation
• [@37:16] - Isograph development
• [@45:46] - Upcoming features
• [@01:00:01] - Closing discussion

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Allen Wyma talks with Marco Ieni about release-plz, a CLI-based tool that helps you to release your Rust crates by generating changelogs and bumping the version of your crates.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Marco Ieni, software engineer at Prisma, creator of release-plz
• [@01:17] - Release-plz creation & features
• [@08:50] - Conventional commit standard
• [@17:41] - Potential upcoming features
• [@21:25] - Gitea, Gitlab, Github integration
• [@28:14] - Release-plz development
• [@31:24] - Windows support
• [@36:22] - Message from Marco
• [@37:07] - Marco’s Rust podcast RustShip

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Allen Wyma talks with Luca Palmieri about Pavex, a new API-focused web framework for Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Luca Palmieri, software engineer, author of Zero To Production In Rust, open source maintainer & contributor
• [@02:04] - Luca’s working experience, discussing time at AWS and moving to Mainmatter
  • Smithy
  • smithy-rs
• [@09:01] - Pavex: a Rust framework for professionals
  • Pavex: re-imaging API development in Rust (RustNationUK 2024)
• [@22:57] - Rustdoc JSON & the f macro
  • Reasoning about Rust: an introduction to Rustdoc’s JSON format (EuroRust 2023)
  • cargo-semver-checks
• [@37:19] - Lessons from maintaining open-source projects like rocket.rs
  • Building a Better Foundation for Rocket’s Future
  • The Economics of Programming Languages (Strange Loop 2023)
• [@52:17] - Pavex’s closed beta stage
• [@56:43] - Plans for production readiness
• [@01:10:43] - Potential pricing models
• [@01:12:39] - Closing discussion

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Vitaly Bragilevsky, Developer Advocate at JetBrains and author of Haskell in depth, sits down with Luca Palmieri.

Vitaly explains what led JetBrains to launch a Rust-specific product, RustRover. He covers, in particular, why it is a good time to invest further in Rust, touching as well on the state of the Rust ecosystem. Luca and Vitaly also touch on the status quo of Rust developer tooling, including debuggers, profilers (or the lack thereof!), and framework-specific extensions.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@01:07] - Becoming a Developer Advocate for Rust at JetBrains
• [@04:34] - Vitaly’s transition from Haskell to Rust
  • Haskell in depth
• [@08:13] - Introducing JetBrains’ RustRover
• [@18:56] - Usage and status quo of Rust developer tooling
• [@25:12] - Vitaly’s outlook on Rust’s future
• [@31:47] - New use cases for Rust adoption
• [@35:07] - Compiler and IDE suggestions
• [@38:08] - JetBrains’ role and future as a Rust tooling provider
• [@39:59] - Reasoning behind Rust’s increasing popularity
• [@46:18] - Conclusion

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Allen Wyma talks with Predrag Gruevski about cargo-semver-checks, a linter that checks your crate’s API for any semver violations.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Predrag Gruevski - creator & maintainer of cargo-semver-checks
• [@00:35] - Exploring cargo-semver-checks, a linter for preventing breaking changes and ensuring semantic versioning
• [@05:00] - What is Semantic versioning (semver)
• [@08:17] - Determining major version bumps
• [@10:48] - Background of the project
• [@18:25] - Functionality, use cases, and project details of cargo-semver-checks
• [@38:51] - Future plans and upcoming features
• [@47:28] - Closing discussion

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Allen Wyma talks with Sean McArthur about the 1.0 release of Hyper, the well-known Rust HTTP library.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet open-source engineer Sean McArthur
• [@01:20] - Reasons for the 9-year journey to release hyper 1.0
• [@05:34] - Addressing async fragmentation
• [@07:38] - Sean’s transition to freelance maintenance
• [@10:12] - Freelancing and finding clients while working on open source
• [@16:56] - Hyper’s maturity and future plans
• [@22:16] - Stages of hyper’s development, releases, and post-release issues.
• [@36:14] - Closing discussion

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Allen Wyma talks with Carl Fredrik Samson about his book Asynchronous Programming in Rust, a deep dive into asynchronous programming in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Carl Fredrik Samson, author of Asynchronous Programming in Rust
• [@04:26] - Making the deal with Packt (publishing company)
• [@05:12] - Runtime with green threads
• [@07:50] - Understanding the concept of asynchronous programming
• [@03:17] - The benefits and purpose of using asynchronous programming
• [@28:35] - Comparing green threads and fibers in Rust
• [@35:29] - Importance of learning async programming
• [@41:43] - Insights into the book’s creation process, including research and writing efforts
• [@43:13] - Target audience and prerequisites for the book
• [@45:09] - Book details
• [@48:02] - Closing thoughts
  • Rust in Production podcast
  • On the Metal podcast
  • Chats with James podcast

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Allen Wyma talks with Marcin Kulik about his work on asciinema, a service that allows people to record their terminal windows to share with others, that has the custom asciinema player written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction
• [@01:56] - Overview of Asciinema: A suite of tools for recording, replaying, and sharing terminal sessions
• [@09:11] - More about Marcin Kulik, the creator of Asciinema, and his background
• [@10:08] - Inspiration behind the creation of Asciinema
• [@18:52] - Marcin’s journey into Rust
• [@23:15] - Balancing paid development and consulting services for Asciinema
• [@24:36] - Progress on the Rust rewrite
• [@28:37] - AGG (Asciinema GIF generator)
• [@34:44] - Maintaining multiple languages and the role of Rust
• [@40:17] - Future plans for Asciinema and potential features
• [@47:23] - Closing discussion

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Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action and founder at Accelerant, sits down with Marco Otte-Witte.

Tim discusses how Rust, despite common perceptions, is relatively easy to learn and how the compiler empowers engineers to avoid common mistakes. The conversation also emphasizes Rust’s growing adoption in companies, its role in addressing long-term maintainability challenges, and its potential to significantly reduce software energy consumption, while highlighting the importance of mentorship to ensure successful integration across organizations.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:34] - Start of the interview
• [@01:27] - Tim’s role at AWS
• [@03:57] - Tim’s reasons for learning Rust
• [@04:57] - Rust in Action
• [@06:59] - How hard is it to learn Rust?
• [@13:49] - Reasons companies are holding back from adopting Rust
• [@23:51] - Rust’s type system and maintainability
• [@36:30] - Dependencies in Rust
• [@41:01] - Energy savings with Rust
• [@48:09] - Tim’s approach to pitching Rust
• [@54:21] - Overcoming concerns around Rust adoption
• [@55:36] - Recruitment strategy for Rust
• [@57:13] - Knowledge spreading
• [@01:02:41] - Conclusion

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Allen Wyma talks with Josh Aas about his work on Prossimo, an Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) project that is focusing on moving critical software used on the Internet to a memory safe language, such as Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Josh Aas - Executive Director at ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), a non-profit dedicated to building a more secure and privacy-respecting digital infrastructure.
• [@01:32] - Let’s Encrypt Project - a nonprofit Certificate Authority providing TLS certificates to 363 million websites.
• [@06:53] - Divvi Up project - a privacy-respecting system for aggregate statistics.
• [@09:48] - Prossimo - ensuring memory safety for the internet’s most critical infrastructure.
• [@15:24] - Discussion about Curl and Rust.
• [@19:06] - The benefits of rewriting software, particularly transitioning from C to Rust for improved memory safety.
• [@34:19] - The ISRG’s ambition to make the Linux kernel memory-safe with Rust.
• [@37:27] - Can Zig potentially be a competitor to Rust?
• [@39:41] - Closing thoughts.

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Allen Wyma talks with Ritchie Vink about his work on Polars, a DataFrame library written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Ritchie Vink - Creator of Polars
• [@02:00] - What is a DataFrame?
• [@05:19] - Arrow
• [@07:26] - NumPy
• [@11:31] - Polars vs Pandas
• [@17:32] - Using Polars in app development
• [@25:24] - Python and Rust docs
• [@31:49] - Polars 1.0 release
• [@35:21] - What keeps Ritchie working on Polars
• [@37:27] - Growing Polars without bloat
• [@39:57] - Closing discussions

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Stefan Baumgartner, Senior Product Architect at Dynatrace, discusses with Marco Otte-Witte how Rust enables developers to write performant and reliable software that’s efficient at a level that leads to substantial cost savings.

Stefan shares his firsthand experience with Rust, highlighting the ecosystem’s ability when it comes to delivering functioning prototypes quickly. He also discusses the importance of understanding memory management and low-level concepts in programming and how teaching Rust empowers developers to write efficient and reliable software.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:34] - Start of the interview
• [@02:06] - Pitching Rust and criteria for adoption
• [@03:35] - What is Dynatrace
• [@06:15] - Stability with Rust
• [@09:59] - Benefits of Rust
• [@13:45] - Learning and teaching Rust
• [@19:21] - Comparing Rust’s teachability to other languages
• [@24:39] - The role of the compiler in Rust programming
• [@26:17] - Stefan’s approach to teaching Rust
• [@29:50] - Onboarding at Dynatrace
• [@34:14] - Performance versus stability
• [@37:12] - Rust’s highlights
• [@39:41] - Conclusion

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Allen Wyma talks with Cedric Sellmann about his experience with recuiting Rust engineers.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Guest introduction: Cedric Sellmann - Rust Recruitment Specialist, previous Java recruiter.
• [@07:18] - Rust’s limited mainstream adoption and challenges in verifying Rust qualifications.
• [@17:28] - Job hunting tips for Rust developers.
• [@29:06] - Current Rust job market compared to previous years.
• [@32:54] - The effectiveness of referrals for Rust developer job opportunities.
• [@35:30] - Industries hiring Rust developers: crypto, gaming, and more!
• [@50:31] - Advice for aspiring Rust developers.

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Allen Wyma talks with Gabor Szabo, who also runs Rust Maven, about his website Rust Digger which collects data about Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - What is Rust Digger, and why is it useful?
• [@16:36] - Handling crates without repository links (e.g., the Fastly crate)
• [@22:27] - Handling crates without an owner.
• [@30:34] - What’s next for Rust Digger, including name squatting, malware, and dependency management.
• [@38:57] - What to expect in the coming months.

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Rob Ede, lead maintainer of Actix Web, explains to Marco Otte-Witte how (and why) Kraken chose to migrate their microservices to Rust.

They also discuss Rust’s web development ecosystem at large, with a particular focus on Actix Web: Rob shares his view on how improvements in the language and framework space will eventually lead to a future where web development in Rust can be as approachable as web development in Javascript.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:36] - Start of the interview
• [@01:26] - What is Actix Web?
• [@06:34] - Kraken’s migration from Java to Rust
• [@10:09] - Benefits of Rust adoption at Kraken
• [@12:48] - Rust vs Java
• [@15:42] - Future improvements for Actix Web
• [@21:15] - Do Rust users become contributors?
• [@24:08] - The future of Rust and Actix Web
• [@30:46] - Recommendations for adopting Rust
• [@31:37] - Conclusion

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Allen Wyma talks with Dave MacLeod about his book “Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches” from Manning.

Rustacean Station discount code for the book: au35mac

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction: meet Dave MacLeod
• [@01:47] - Target audience and motivation behind the book
• [@08:32] - Taking a direct approach to learning
• [@15:14] - Understanding shadowing in Rust
• [@16:56] - Comparing “Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches” with “EasyRust”
• [@20:06] - Streamlined printing: Changes to printline and print in Rust
• [@22:08] - Dive into async Rust
• [@24:19] - Crafting a coherent flow: process and concept tie-ins in the book
• [@29:46] - Tackling advanced topics: macros, iterators, and closures
• [@33:05] - Exploring the chrono crate
• [@35:29] - Safety and testing: discussing unsafe Rust
• [@41:49] - The book’s release date
• [@44:18] - Dave’s experience writing the book
• [@46:54] - Future plans and projects
• [@49:33] - Closing thoughts

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.70 and 1.71 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:20] - Rust 1.70

• [@01:22] - Cargo’s sparse protocol by default
• [@03:47] - OnceCell and OnceLock
• [@10:56] - IsTerminal
• [@12:49] - Named debug levels
• [@14:57] - Enforced stability in the test CLI
• [@16:45] - Stabilized APIs
  • Add Default impls for iterators
  • Arc::into_inner
  • Option::is_some_and
  • SocketAddrExt
• [@24:30] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@24:42] - Use SipHash-1-3 instead of 2-4
  • [@26:06] - Alignment debug checks for pointer derefs
  • [@27:04] - Relaxed ordering for asm! operands
  • [@27:53] - -Zgitoxide
  • [@28:21] - -Zdirect-minimal-versions

[@29:16] - Rust 1.71.0

• [@29:25] - C-unwind ABI
  • RFC
  • Unwinding by default?
• [@36:59] - Debugger visualization attributes
  • Detailed documentation
• [@37:36] - raw-dylib linking
  • Windows linking docs
  • What is ordinal linking
• [@38:15] - Upgrade to musl 1.2
• [@39:42] - Const-initialized thread locals
• [@41:14] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@41:40] - Uplift drop_ref clippy lints
  • [@42:39] - Allow some recursive panics
  • [@43:57] - Optimize cargo under rustup
  • [@45:38] - Avoid excessive registry lookups
  • [@46:28] - Include rust-version in publish
  • [@47:02] - Document more semver rules
    • Adding #[non_exhausting]
    • Making an fn safe
    • MSRV is a minor bump

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Allen Wyma talks with Ian Ker-Seymer about his work on rb-sys which easily allows you to integrate Ruby with Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Guest introduction: Ian Ker-Seymer - Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
• [@02:04] - The connection between Liquid and Shopify
• [@06:19] - The nenefits of using WebAssembly
• [@11:14] - Exploring the languages in Shopify’s stack, including Ruby
• [@14:24] - Rust’s practical use cases
• [@16:44] - How Rust became part of Shopify’s stack
• [@19:14] - Deep dive into rb-sys
• [@24:17] - RubyGems and Bundler: insights and considerations
• [@36:41] - Integrating Rust into the stack
• [@40:52] - Addressing challenges with Windows compilation
• [@47:46] - Spotlight on rb-sys: why it’s worth exploring

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.68 and 1.69 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:30] - Rust 1.68

• [@01:32] - Cargo’s sparse protocol
• [@09:28] - Local Pin construction
  • Implementation comments
  • A fun hack
• [@13:56] - Default alloc error handler
  • Small allocs in panic handler probably ok
• [@18:24] - Stabilized APIs
  • impl From<bool> for f64
• [@19:06] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@19:15] - Stabilize UEFI extern
  • [@20:07] - cargo build --verbose
  • [@20:50] - home is a cargo crate
  • [@21:12] - Cargo.lock for workspace publish
  • [@21:35] - Make Context !Send and !Sync

[@24:24] - Rust 1.68.1

[@25:11] - Rust 1.68.2

• GitHub announcement

[@26:29] - Rust 1.69.0

• [@28:17] - Nice PR#42069
• [@29:50] - More cargo fix
• [@31:17] - No more debug info for build scripts
  • Nicholas Nethercote’s blog
• [@34:48] - Stabilized APIs
  • CStr::from_bytes_until_nul
• [@37:24] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@37:28] - Unaligned references is a hard error now
  • [@38:28] - Deriving on packed structs
    • More detailed description
  • [@44:51] - Suggest cargo add
  • [@45:36] - Search for macros with !
  • [@46:10] - Compatibility notes
  • [@47:18] - Rust 0.1 release notes

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Marco Otte-Witte discusses how to pitch Rust to decision-makers with Joel Marcey, the Director of Technology at the Rust Foundation.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:33] - Start of the interview
• [@00:50] - Joel’s role at the Rust Foundation
• [@03:17] - The value of Rust adoption for companies
• [@07:29] - Real-world success stories with Rust
• [@11:34] - The implications of adopting Rust as a business
• [@18:17] - Rust’s competitive advantage for hiring
• [@20:18] - Where Rust shines
• [@33:35] - The future of Rust
• [@38:33] - The Rust Foundation’s plans for the future
• [@40:43] - Conclusion

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Hosts: Marco Otte-Witte

Marco Otte-Witte discusses with Luca Palmieri the present and future of the Rust web ecosystem.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

• [@00:00] - Introduction
  • Video recording of the interview
• [@00:27] - Start of the interview
• [@01:39] - “Zero to Production in Rust”
  • Zero to Production in Rust
• [@02:40] - Luca’s experience working with Rust at AWS
• [@19:14] - Scenarios and use cases for Rust adoption
• [@34:43] - The state of the art and future of web backend development in Rust
• [@45:57] - Conclusion

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Hosts: Marco Otte-Witte

Allen Wyma talks with Cliff Crosland about his work on Scanner.dev that is powered by Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction
• [@02:16] - Rust for Cloud Infrastructure
• [@07:34] - Exploring libcurl
• [@13:23] - Introducing Rust to Scanner.dev
• [@13:23] - Scala in Data Science
• [@25:22] - Rust vs. Other Languages
• [@40:08] - Encoding/Decoding
• [@45:03] - How Scanner.dev Works
• [@55:16] - Future of Scanner.dev
• [@01:00:58] - Final Information

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Allen Wyma talks with Albert Larsan about his work on bootstrapping the Rust compiler.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction to Bootstrap
• [@1:57] - Building the standard library and compiler.
• [@5:34] - The biggest challenges when bootstrapping rustc (the Rust compiler)
• [@11:26] - Why use Python to start the bootstrapping process?
• [@13:08] - Running tests as part of the Rust CI to ensure that each component is well-tested.
• [@15:07] - Running tests on Linux, MacOS, and Windows
• [@18:54] - Features that the Rust bootstrap team has been working on.
• [@20:50] - Plans to run Clippy and fix issues.
• [@23:41] - Stage redesign, verification, reproducibility, and different optimizations implemented in the compiler.
• [@27:28] - Albert’s advice on the process of bootstrapping Rust.
• [@31:05] - The importance of documentation
• [@31:49] - Parting thoughts

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with Ivan Cernja, DevRel at Shuttle, a platform for deploying Rust apps.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction.
• [@2:04] - Ivan’s programming background and how he got involved with Shuttle.
• [@4:41] - What is Shuttle?
• [@6:15] - Why choose Rust for Shuttle?
• [@9:36] - Deciding to make Shuttle open source and community feedback.
• [@12:38] - Shuttle AI and integration with ChatGPT.
• [@18:04] - Shuttle Heroes program.
• [@21:10] - Pain points working with Rust.
• [@22:51] - Async runtime issues.
• [@24:01] - What’s next for Shuttle?
• [@26:22] - The best things and advantages about using Rust.
• [@27:28] - Why startups are reluctant about using Rust.
• [@32:14] - Moving to Linz and getting involved in Rust Linz.
• [@36:10] - Ivan’s goal on making Rust education as accessible as possible.
• [@37:26] - How to get hold of Ivan and get more information about Shuttle.

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Hosts: Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan

Allen Wyma talks with Erlend Sogge Heggen, Founder of Fish Folk. Fish Folk is a collection of open source games written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction to Fish Folk.
• [@2:17] - Initial concerns about using Rust in a game development project and how it worked out.
• [@5:46] - The inspiration behind Fish Folk.
• [@8:05] - The importance of modding and building an open and community-oriented environment.
• [@10:52] - Protection and licensing of the project.
• [@14:38] - The process of finding developers and contributors to the project.
• [@18:24] - Initial funding for the project and financing contributors.
• [@22:19] - Legalization and registration.
• [@23:37] - Fish Folk’s Kickstarter campaign.
• [@25:16] - Fish Folk’s several iterations and transitions and how they affected the development of the game.
• [@25:50] - The decision to switch from Macroquad to Bevy.
• [@31:40] - The overall experience and result of switching from Macroquad to Bevy.
• [@32:49] - Experimenting with different approaches and models for multiplayer implementation.
• [@35:22] - Plans on monetization.
• [@40:57] - Timelines and deadlines for the release of the game.
• [@44:39] - How to get involved with the project.

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Founder and CEO of Daily, and João Neves, Staff Engineer at Daily. Daily provides SDKs for building video applications on top of the WebRTC standard using Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction to Daily
• [@05:00] - WebRTC Implementation and sharing across different platform
• [@10:31] - The challenges of integrating C++ with WebRTC
• [@19:16] - Signaling in WebRTC - Session setup and initial configuration
• [@22:45] - Challenges in implementing WebRTC standards
• [@27:21] - Handling and working around platform and browser differences when implementing WebRTC
• [@30:51] - Daily’s mono repo approach for code sharing
• [@33:30] - The process of building and releasing code in relation to different platforms and dependencies
• [@35:57] - Integrating Rust, C, Objective C, and Swift for iOS development
• [@37:20] - Daily’s automated testing processes
• [@42:24] - Daily’s network simulation layer in their testing process
• [@44:00] - The use of Rust in implementing network simulation for testing purposes
• [@49:15] - Using WebAssembly alongside native code in an application, and the potential obstacles to consider
• [@50:52] - Crates that are being used by Daily
• [@52:44] - What would differentiate Daily compared to other solutions?
• [@55:48] - Daily vs Zoom
• [@56:38] - Other open-source projects from Daily
• [@1:01:20] - Parting thoughts and how to get in touch with Daily

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Tobias Hunger, developer on Slint. Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display. Slint has just made a 1.0 release.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction
• [@04:02] - Slint updates and progress from the previous interview
• [@06:15] - Upgrades that came along releasing of Slint 1.0
• [@11:12] - Bugs fixed in Slint 1.0
• [@12:43] - Stability, improved tooling and other key features in the Slint upgrade
• [@15:34] - Multi-window support
• [@18:26] - Screen reader accessibility and keyboard shortcut in Slint
• [@22:04] - Raspberry Pi Pico and Zero 2 W
• [@24:21] - Rust support, line buffering and graphics acceleration
• [@26:10] - Other UIs that are out in the Rust space
• [@27:17] - Handling bugs and feature reports
• [@29:10] - Slint documentation
• [@34:02] - Patch files
• [@37:16] - Plans for the 1.1 release
• [@38:51] - Interesting ways users used Slint API
• [@40:30] - Slint users and Rust community feedback
• [@43:35] - Requiring that users have a Rust compiler installed
• [@46:31] - Programming with Rust vs C, C++
• [@48:33] - Tobias’ great experience with the Rust community

Credits

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with Stefan Baumgartner, contributor to the Shuttle Launchpad tutorial series on Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction
• [@01:45] - What is Shuttle Launchpad and why was it created
• [@03:34] - Shuttle Launchpad initial development
• [@06:39] - Supporting multiple backends and databases
• [@08:32] - How did Stefan get into Shuttle
• [@10:27] - Rust, Shuttle, and security
• [@12:57] - Rust community in Austria
• [@15:27] - Rust Linz
• [@17:33] - Stefan’s career background
• [@21:19] - Language choice trade-offs
• [@25:34] - Developer communication
• [@27:15] - Gimoji
• [@28:50] - Zed
• [@30:00] - Copilot when working with Rust
• [@32:12] - VS Code
• [@33:14] - Shuttle Launchpad’s aim in making learning Rust much easier
• [@37:50] - Initial issue of creating Shuttle Launchpad
• [@45:25] - Differences with traditional linked list newsletters
• [@48:09] - Other materials and ways to learn and get started with Rust
• [@54:25] - Plugs for Gimoji and Shuttle Launchpad

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Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with Rainer Stropek, creator of CoderDojo Linz and Rust Linz.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction to Rust Linz
• [@3:23] - How did Rainer get into teaching kids in Austria how to code
• [@5:17] - CoderDojo’s vision in creating a coding club
• [@7:44] - Why text-based programming is not an option for kids younger than 10
• [@11:31] - Starting programming at a young age
• [@18:40] - Is coding and programming for everyone?
• [@22:40] - Parent’s huge influence on kids who wants to pursue programming
• [@24:32] - CoderDojo’s approach to inclusive programming
• [@33:55] - CoderDojo for adults and for kids
• [@35:59] - Rainer’s programming background
• [@37:29] - Organizing Rust Linz meet-ups
• [@43:26] - Rust meet-up schedules
• [@45:09] - Call for speakers for Rust Linz
• [@49:22] - Using rust in building web APIs and application programming
• [@50:14] - Interfacing Rust with other languages
• [@52:19] - Future of WebAssembly
• [@54:01] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with David Hewitt, contributor to the PyO3 crate that helps to create Python extensions using Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction PyO3
• [@5:03] - History of PyO3
• [@9:14] - Maintainers of PyO3
• [@12:15] - Comparing different languages for machine learning
• [@16:21] - Python’s ability to tap into native languages
• [@17:38] - Consideration of using Rust with Python
• [@20:39] - Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
• [@23:14] - Python vs Rust performance
• [@24:20] - Rust error handling and two reasons to move Python code to Rust
• [@26:08] - The complaints about Python
• [@31:03] - C vs Python
• [@33:17] - Why use Rust instead of C in the cryptography library
• [@36:06] - Small percentage of people who get cut out by the use of Rust
• [@39:36] - The importance of memory safety
• [@41:27] - Zig and Rust
• [@43:58] - The reliability of Rust use in Android Kernel
• [@46:32] - Python interpreter
• [@51:13] - Inline Python
• [@56:05] - How to get started with Rust
• [@57:41] - The future of PyO3
• [@59:07] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with John Nunley, contributor to the smol async runtime.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@1:46] - Advantage of smol
• [@5:40] - John Nunley’s programming background
• [@11:50] - Tauri, GTK and other GUI frameworks
• [@16:16] - Async.io
• [@19:28] - Writing packages and breaking up packages into smaller modules
• [@24:21] - John’s work career
• [@25:09] - Windows vs Linux API
• [@29:06] - windows-rs
• [@30:03] - Windows support with Rust
• [@31:46] - Recent changes in smol
• [@33:16] - Event Listener and how it works
• [@37:26] - Handling pull requests and complaints
• [@41:40] - smol’s integration with other runtimes
• [@44:54] - smol vs Tokio
• [@47:04] - Reason why smol is growing in popularity among GUI crates
• [@49:06] - Recent developments in async
• [@52:18] - The Async working group
• [@58:11] - Community-based crates with suggestions and structure
• [@1:00:22] - What to expect to come out of smol in the near future?
• [@1:02:11] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Orson Peters, creator of the Glidesort sorting algorithm that may make its way into the Rust core library.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction to Glidesort
• [@1:19] - What got Orson interested in sorting algorithms
• [@4:47] - Process of creating Glidesort
• [@6:06] - Quicksort and how to handle low cardinality inputs
• [@8:18] - Three-way comparison and binary partitioning
• [@10:59] - Basic terms to know about quicksort and mergesort
• [@15:28] - Choosing an element as a pivot
• [@24:16] - Stable and unstable sorting algorithms
• [@27:03] - How Glidesort can help with memory usage and memory savings
• [@35:51] - How Glidesort detects if there is already a sorting in an array
• [@38:19] - Linear scanning
• [@41:47] - When Glidesort is a good algorithm to use
• [@45:53] - Glidesort is a comparison-based algorithm
• [@49:09] - What datatype would be great for Glidesort
• [@52:17] - Sorting algorithms and language issues
• [@53:11] - Sorting algorithm in Python vs Rust
• [@55:52] - The challenge of implementing sorting algorithms in Rust
• [@58:36] - Reducing Glidesort’s code size
• [@1:01:21] - Standard library benchmarking criteria
• [@1:02:52] - Performance evaluation of Glidesort and other improvements
• [@1:06:08] - Quantum computing
• [@1:07:43] - Next on the list for Glidesort improvements
• [@1:10:54] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Jonathan Pallant, Senior Embedded Engineer of Ferrous Systems and member of Rust Embedded Working Group about Rust on embedded systems.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@2:23] - Jonathan’s projects
• [@10:3] - Keyboard drivers, CP/M, IBM history
• [@22:19] - Jonathan’s background in embedded systems
• [@23:46] - Understanding more about computers and laptops
• [@33:37] - Rust working group for embedded systems
• [@37:16] - The power of Rust on microcontrollers
• [@40:00] - The difference between a Microcontroller and a Central Processing Unit
• [@42:15] - Discussing System on Chip (SoC), Memory Management Unit (MMU), and Microcontrollers
• [@45:50] - RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) vs CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing) architecture
• [@53:30] - How did the working group become an official working group?
• [@56:00] - Using Rust with microcontrollers
• [@59:54] - Choosing Rust over C or Python

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Allen Wyma talks with Tobie and Jamie Morgan, creators of SurrealDB about why they switched to Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Intro
• [@1:42] - What made SurrealDB switch from Go to Rust?
• [@4:51] - What is SurrealDB and why it was made?
• [@9:18] - How does SurrealDB store data?
• [@11:24] - SurrealDB and WebAssembly
• [@13:25] - SurrealDB limitations running in the browser
• [@14:09] - Running SurrealDB in the cloud
• [@15:37] - Advantage of SurrealDB over other services
• [@16:35] - Transparency in SurrealDB
• [@18:37] - Encryption in SurrealDB
• [@19:26] - SurrealDB licensing and open-source
• [@25:45] - SurrealDB services and users
• [@28:57] - When not to use SurrealDB?
• [@31:34] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Lukas Wirth, member of the rust-analyzer team.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@1:46] - Rust Analyzer’s source of funding and history
• [@10:56] - Lukas’ contribution and work in Rust Analyzer
• [@16:01] - What is Rust Analyzer and what does it do?
• [@17:35] - Rust Analyzer diagnostics and implementation
• [@21:23] - The importance of Rust Analyzer
• [@25:36] - Rust Analyzer’s limitations
• [@32:54] - Lessons from the left-pad library issue
• [@35:20] - Difficulties with dependency version duplicates
• [@39:53] - Installing Rust Analyzer for different code editors
• [@44:29] - Rust Language Server vs Rust Analyzer
• [@51:25] - Clippy
• [@56:39] - Rust’s advantage over other languages
• [@58:08] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Syrus Akbary, Founder and CEO at Wasmer, a WebAssembly runtime written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - What is Wasmer?
• [@4:50] - How Syrus got into Wasmer
• [@7:55] - WebAssembly vs Docker and Kubernetes
• [@14:30] - WebAssembly GC proposal and updates
• [@18:06] - Advantage of using WASM over other techniques
• [@20:52] - Permission system with WebAssembly
• [@23:30] - Why choose Wasmer?
• [@25:04] - Wasmer installation process
• [@25:56] - What makes Rust the best language to use for creating Wasmer
• [@28:47] - Compiling and running your Rust codes to WebAssembly
• [@30:48] - Updates and features that are coming out on WebAssembly
• [@39:36] - Rust and WebAssembly
• [@46:00] - Making all applications able to compile to WebAssembly
• [@47:01] - Using GUI with Wasmer
• [@50:16] - Where to get more information about Wasmer

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Allen Wyma talks with Josh Matthews, former Engineering Manager at Mozilla for Servo, a web browser engine written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Josh’s history with Servo
• [@3:54] - Community fears around the future of Rust when Mozilla had their layoffs
• [@6:52] - Chrome’s Javascript engine
• [@10:54] - How to make web design more secure with Rust
• [@19:50] - How Servo is using Rust
• [@24:49] - Servo’s responsibility as browser engine vs a JavaScript engine
• [@30:14] - CSS Grid support
• [@35:51] - Developer tools
• [@39:54] - Complexity in web optimization
• [@42:13] - Running multiple iframes within a page
• [@44:21] - How Rust helped Servo
• [@46:32] - Funding Servo
• [@50:19] - Where to get updates on Servo
• [@50:40] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Tom Miles, CTO of AI-NC, a platform written in Rust to get manufactorability feedback for hardware designs.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@0:46] - What is Spin
• [@1:23] - AI-NC’s company history
• [@2:46] - What made Tom start a machine shop company
• [@8:17] - AI-NC’s goal to provide automation, design, and advanced manufacturing
• [@17:04] - Communication between designers and assembly people
• [@19:22] - The margin for error in manufacturing
• [@30:40] - What made the team switch to Rust vs other languages
• [@35:06] - Libraries that AI-NC uses in their services
• [@42:35] - Integrations with third-party chat applications
• [@46:03] - Hiring Rust talent
• [@50:23] - Teaching people Rust
• [@53:27] - Advice for companies that want to use Rust
• [@54:42] - Parting thoughts

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Alexander Lopatin, creator of Cargo Limit, a cargo plugin that will show errors in your Rust code before any warnings.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Alexander’s programming background
• [@3:17] - What made Alexander interested in the Rust
• [@4:43] - What is Cargo Limit?
• [@9:19] - Cargo Limit’s features
• [@11:20] - Improvements that Alexander wants to make in Cargo Limit
• [@12:52] - Cargo extensions and installation
• [@13:31] - Alexander’s process for creating Cargo extensions and plugins
• [@16:00] - Using Neovim and integrating with Rust Analyzer
• [@18:57] - Upcoming upgrades and features of Cargo Limit
• [@24:46] - How to get in touch with Alexander and learn more
• [@25:28] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Antonio Scandurra, co-creator of Zed, a high performance code editor written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@2:56] - The story behind Zed
• [@6:24] - Zed’s performance and features powered by Rust
• [@12:01] - How Zed balances speed vs features
• [@16:00] - What is the most important thing an editor has to have?
• [@18:01] - Zed customization and the ability to add plugins
• [@23:13] - Zed’s built-in contacts panel for team collaboration
• [@26:54] - Third-party services that Zed uses
• [@31:28] - Zed’s tab support
• [@32:39] - Zed’s theme customization and system
• [@34:31] - Top crates that power Zed
• [@36:05] - Zed’s plans to support other platforms
• [@37:56] - Porting Rust vs porting other languages
• [@42:09] - Zed’s pricing plans
• [@43:15] - Zed’s possible plan for open-sourcing parts of the editor
• [@44:10] - Check out more information about Zed and sign up to join the waitlist
• [@44:29] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Joshua Nelson, team lead for the Bootstrap team for Rust, and formally on the Rustdoc team for Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@1:07] - Different groups and teams in the Rust community
• [@8:31] - Memory safety and security issues
• [@10:26] - Rust documentation
• [@12:13] - Joshua’s contribution to Rust’s documentation
• [@14:57] - How did Joshua get involved with Rust
• [@18:17] - Documentation and prioritizing features
• [@23:19] - Rust team and governance issues
• [@34:17] - Maintaining the code
• [@37:45] - Joshua’s new team and career
• [@42:20] - Cargo and the bootstrap tool
• [@46:08] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Serge Barral about Asynchronix, a event simulation framework written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - What is Asynchronix?
• [@2:21] - Writing Rust documentation
• [@4:28] - Serge’s career & background
• [@8:51] - How does the Asynchronix simulator work?
• [@11:40] - The importance of writing the library in Rust
• [@16:51] - Time-based simulation and practical use cases
• [@26:59] - Building the custom executor
• [@30:48] - How long did it take to build Asynchronix?
• [@34:10] - Asynchronix’s vision to improve modern systems development
• [@40:15] - Getting in touch to learn more about Asynchronix
• [@41:43] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with the Lodestone team, who is working a tool to create private Minecraft servers in a safe and convenient way using Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@2:51] - How did the Lodestone team discover Rust?
• [@8:26] - Motivation for writing the Lodestone project
• [@9:28] - Why choose Rust
• [@12:23] - Go vs Rust
• [@13:53] - Experience using Tauri
• [@16:05] - Lodestone’s front-end work
• [@19:18] - Setting up and using Lodestone
• [@21:46] - Issues and challenges the team is currently working on
• [@25:27] - The advantage of using Rust
• [@27:21] - Crates used in the project
• [@29:51] - How Actors work
• [@34:56] - Lodestone’s scripting system
• [@39:29] - Lodestone’s security and permission system
• [@45:37] - How to reach out to the Lodestone team
• [@46:19] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.65, 1.66, and 1.67 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:11] - Rust 1.65

• [@01:28] - Generic Associated Types
  • More detailed blog post
• [@06:48] - let-else statements
  • if_chain crate
• [@16:56] - break from labeled blocks
• [@19:21] - Splitting Linux debuginfo
• [@20:44] - Stabilized APIs
  • std::backtrace::Backtrace
• [@22:41] - RLS deprecation
• [@23:19] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@23:30] - Cargo queue reordering
    • Benchmarking results
  • [@24:54] - Niches in data-filled enums
  • [@27:23] - poll_fn and Unpin
  • [@28:05] - Too many personalities
  • [@29:20] - uninit integers are UB
    • Working Group discussion
  • [@33:23] - Uplift let_underscore lint
  • [@35:13] - #[non_exhaustive] on enum variants

[@36:27] - Rust 1.66.0

• [@36:40] - Explicit discriminants on enums with fields
  • Dark and forbidden secrets
  • RFC
• [@40:05] - core::hint::black_box
  • Tracking issue discussion
• [@46:34] - cargo remove
• [@46:52] - Stabilized APIs
  • Mixed integer operations
  • BTreeMap/Set first/last operations
  • std::os::fd
• [@50:51] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@51:10] - Cargo publish changes
  • [@53:33] - Don’t link to libresolv or libiconv on Darwin
  • [@54:41] - sym in asm
  • [@55:18] - Soundness fix for impl Trait
  • [@57:27] - Allow transmutes across lifetimes
  • [@57:45] - Unicode 15
  • [@58:24] - for loops over Option and Result

[@1:00:38] - Rust 1.66.1

Security advisory.

Affects primarily users with insteadOf in their git config. Prefer pushInsteadOf instead.

You may also be interested in:

• Rustup 1.25.2

[@1:02:41] - Rust 1.67

• [@1:02:45] - #[must_use] on async fn
• [@1:04:07] - sync::mpsc updated
  • Long-standing mpsc panic
  • The PR
  • crossbeam crate
    • CachePadded
    • AtomicCell
• [@1:07:52] - Stabilized APIs
  • NonZero*::BITS
• [@1:08:38] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@1:08:45] - Ratio-aware decompression limit
    • Original CVE
    • Original fix
  • [@1:10:40] - Ordering of array fields
  • [@1:13:08] - Compilation targets
    • Sony PlayStation 1 target
    • Remove linuxkernel targets
    • Target configuration
    • x86_64-unknown-none
  • [@1:14:45] - Dataflow-based MIR constant propagation
  • [@1:15:37] - The drop order twist
    • The effect on let-chains
    • let-chains tracking issue
  • [@1:20:48] - Inconsistent rounding of 0.5
  • [@1:23:24] - Android NDK update in 1.68
  • [@1:23:54] - Help test cargo’s HTTP protocol

Credits

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Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

Allen Wyma talks with Aurimas Blažulionis, author of We Need Type Information, Not Stable ABI blog post, which details possible alternatives to a stable Rust ABI.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Who is Auri?
• [@3:07] - Auri’s background: video game development, hacking, and reverse engineering
• [@8:14] - Common advice for optimizing your code
• [@10:24] - Auri’s article on how to link multiple libraries together
• [@14:07] - What is an ABI (Application Binary Interface)?
• [@17:05] - ABI between C and C++
• [@19:02] - ABI for Rust
• [@21:14] - Fat pointers and zero-size types
• [@23:50] - Writing FFI
• [@31:15] - C FFI in relation to a Rust ABI
• [@32:12] - System support for Rust
• [@39:30] - Auri’s blog and articles
• [@40:53] - Where to reach out to Auri

Credits

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Adam Chalmers, software engineer at Cloudflare, which is a global network of servers located around the world, that uses Rust to help power and secure the internet.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction to Cloudflare
• [@3:57] - Cloudflare’s edge computing
• [@7:56] - Running Rust binary on Cloudflare
• [@10:36] - Adams’ background and work history
• [@15:12] - How does Cloudflare provide web security?
• [@32:30] - Cloudflare’s transition and rewriting from C to Rust
• [@37:12] - Cloudflare’s data plane and control plane
• [@43:00] - Hacking and security issues on Apple and other devices
• [@50:56] - How does Cloudflare handle onboarding people to Rust
• [@1:00:09] - The importance of Rust’s performance and reliability for Cloudflare
• [@1:05:07] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Maxwell Flitton, author of Rust Web Programming which details how to build web services using Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@3:21] - What led Maxwell to write and publish books about Rust
• [@6:02] - Type-checking and Python crashes
• [@8:50] - Rust technology and its sustainability
• [@12:32] - Python vs Rust
• [@13:23] - Maxwell’s background and history
• [@16:11] - Details about Maxwell’s book Rust Web Programming
• [@19:19] - Using the actor model
• [@24:02] - Maxwell’s thoughts and motivation for publishing more books
• [@32:44] - Rust community
• [@35:19] - Rust innovations happening in London
• [@36:22] - Where to purchase the Rust Web Programming book
• [@40:14] - What to expect for the upcoming book editions
• [@43:48] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Shuang Zhu, creator of Rust Magazine, a Rust-focused online magazine that provides articles from experts and enthusiasts in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@3:28] - Rust community in China
• [@4:03] - Shuang Zhu’s experience using Go
• [@7:30] - Go vs Rust
• [@11:21] - Rust Magazine
• [@11:42] - What separates Rust Magazine from other Rust publications
• [@18:01] - How to contribute and submit articles to Rust Magazine
• [@21:41] - How to apply as an editor for Rust Magazine
• [@22:08] - Publishing frequency for Rust Magazine
• [@24:04] - How to stay up to date with the Rust Magazine
• [@25:26] - What made Shuang Zhu decide to create Rust Magazine
• [@27:25] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Ernest Kissiedu, organizer of Rust Nation, a Rust-focused conference geared towards Rust beginners and the Rust-curious.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@3:21] - Rust Nation’s purpose and goal
• [@5:14] - Ernest’s background and being the community lead of Rust London Community
• [@13:29] - Rust communities all around the world
• [@16:14] - Possible guests and speakers at the Rust conference.
• [@22:39] - Why you should attend the Rust conference regardless of how experienced you are with Rust
• [@26:44] - Choosing and narrowing down the list of speakers for the conference
• [@31:55] - How the Rust conference will be different from other conferences
• [@35:29] - How to join the Rust London Community Meetup group
• [@42:20] - Get 15% off on Rust conference ticket price use promo code RUSTACEAN-STATION
• [@50:31] - How to reach out to Ernest
• [@51:27] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon, who is working on Fermyon Cloud, a platform to deploy and host WebAssembly applications, with a prime focus on hosting Spin applications written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@2:13] - A deeper dive into the Cloud and its impact
• [@9:39] - Matt’s work experience on HP and HP Cloud.
• [@13:40] - Kubernetes
• [@20:07] - WebAssembly
• [@30:27] - Krustlet
• [@36:21] - Edge Computing
• [@41:05] - Fermyon Cloud
• [@50:48] - Where to learn more about Fermyon Cloud
• [@52:58] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Stephen Crane, CTO of Immunant, who is working on C2Rust, a library that transpiles C99-compliant C code into unsafe Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - C2Rust Introduction
• [@01:50] - How C2Rust works and its goal as a transpiler
• [@05:49] - Transpilers vs compilers
• [@12:30] - Unstructured control flow vs structured control flow
• [@16:32] - The process of transforming C to Rust projects
• [@19:15] - Parsing C code correctly
• [@22:13] - The importance of compiler flags on interpreting C Code
• [@28:45] - C++ vs C
• [@38:50] - When you should you look at using C2Rust
• [@45:04] - The best way to run your tests in Rust
• [@48:15] - Projects that are currently using C2Rust
• [@50:29] - Improving the usability and safety of the output of rust code
• [@53:55] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Seaton Ullberg, developer of kernel-density-estimation, a Rust library that computes kernel density estimations.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction
• [@0:55] - Crate overview and how it works
• [@17:49] - Kernel Density Estimation vs other competing algorithms
• [@24:05] - Application uses of Kernel Density Estimation
• [@33:38] - Why write this library
• [@35:03] - Why use Rust when re-writing this library
• [@40:26] - Seaton using f64 as a feature
• [@42:20] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Gray Olson, developer of Presser, a library that aims to make it easier to safely work with byte buffers.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Gray’s background and introduction
• [@04:18] - Gray’s art and graphic designing work for Embark Studio
• [@08:40] - Ray tracing and fractals
• [@13:44] - The most expensive process in a video game
• [@16:48] - Vector graphics are so hard on the GPU
• [@18:57] - What makes triangles very useful in drawing and designing
• [@22:41] - Matrix math as a fundamental building block of computer graphics
• [@28:13] - Understanding the concept of uninitialized memory and why Presser is necessary
• [@36:31] - LLVM’s “No Uninitialized Memory” attribute.
• [@39:06] - Rust’s virtual machine
• [@40:52] - Allocating memory for data
• [@49:34] - Safety invariants and validity invariants in the Rust ecosystem
• [@53:19] - How to use unsafe code in a way that does not violate the validity invariant of Rust
• [@1:04:01] - Embark Studio’s mission to enable those who play games to also modify the game worlds they play in
• [@1:07:27] - Embark Studio’s Rust game projects
• [@1:09:08] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Greg Johnston, creator of Leptos, a full-stack, web framework using a reactive design to build declaritive user interfaces.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introduction of Greg
• [@02:12] - Programming languages has Greg worked with
• [@05:14] - Greg’s other passions besides programming
• [@10:59] - How Elm has set the agenda for a lot of Javascript front-end frameworks
• [@13:25] - Elm vs Rust in terms of error handling
• [@18:16] - What is Leptos and why Greg created it
• [@33:44] - Pros of using Leptos
• [@38:19] - Leptos’ Server Side Rendering feature
• [@45:44] - Leptos’ build tool limitations
• [@51:40] - Leptos’ ability to interact with other languages
• [@59:25] - Greg’s work and projects using JavaScript
• [@1:00:45] - Greg’s Flutter experience
• [@1:04:21] - Greg’s Ionic experience
• [@1:08:28] - HTML
• [@1:12:46] - Leptos’ version
• [@1:14:14] - Leptos’ production readiness
• [@1:16:23] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Khashayar Fereidani, creator of Kanal, a sync and async channel library boasting the fastest implementation of channels in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:10] - Introduction
• [@03:10] - Where did the idea of creating Kanal come from?
• [@04:10] - Go vs Rust performance
• [@06:32] - How Kanal works with synchronous Rust
• [@07:40] - When did work on Kanal get started
• [@11:08] - What’s left to get done for Kanal to be production ready
• [@13:48] - Feedback so far for Kanal
• [@15:54] - Async frameworks that work with Kanal
• [@16:59] - Kinds of problems that are solved with channels
• [@19:11] - Channels can help in learning Rust
• [@19:48] - What’s next for Kanal
• [@20:49] - Parting thoughts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Sergey Davidoff, creator of cargo-auditable, a cargo plugin for auditing your Rust dependencies for security vulnerabilities.

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Timestamps

• [@00:10] - Introduction to cargo-auditable
• [@07:51] - Guarantees that cargo-auditable provides
• [@17:33] - Trivy and other crates that are in cargo-auditable
• [@19:47] - cargo-auditable vs cargo audit
• [@21:09] - Sergey’s programming background
• [@34:49] - Vulnerabilities Sergey was able to encounter and reported to RustSec
• [@39:47] - Feedbacks and reactions from library owners that were found to have issues
• [@48:52] - How does Sergey handle problems and issues he encounters?
• [@56:48] - Sergey’s tips and advice to those who want to improve security on their projects
• [@59:36] - Parting thoughts and shoutouts

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Eric Arellano (they/them) and Stu Hood (he/him), maintainers of Pants, a build system made for monorepos.

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Timestamps

• [@00:10] - Pants’ Introduction
• [@01:26] - Different languages used in building Pants
• [@03:25] - Pants versions
• [@06:00] - Pants’ history and why it started
• [@11:09] - What is a Monorepo and why you would want to use it
• [@13:48] - Polyrepo vs Monorepo
• [@19:04] - What makes Pants unique
• [@21:03] - Why Pants needed to rewrite some parts from Python to Rust and other languages
• [@22:31] - Why Pants chose Rust
• [@25:46] - Pants 1 vs Pants 2
• [@27:12] - Challenges integrating Python and Rust
• [@29:03] - How Eric and Stu figured out which parts should be written in Python and which should be in Rust
• [@32:27] - Future plans and what’s next for Pants?
• [@36:15] - Shoutouts and parting thoughts

Credits

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Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Forest Anderson, co-host at Rust GameDev Podcast, and core dev on Veloren. Allen and Forest talk about Veloren, a multiplayer voxel RPG game engine, written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:11] - Introduction
• [@03:31] - The Rust Game Dev Team
• [@07:31] - The size of the community for Rust game development
• [@10:48] - The complexity of game development
• [@12:43] - How Veloren was created
• [@18:30] - What is Veloren
• [@22:52] - The kinds of games that can be developed in Veloren
• [@25:36] - The advantage of using Rust in game development
• [@31:51] - Game development experience in Linux vs Windows
• [@34:46] - Gaming community for Linux
• [@37:40] - System Requirement for running Veloren
• [@42:17] - Parting thoughts
• [@43:54] - Where to reach out and how to get involved with Veloren and in the Rust Game Dev community

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:50] - Rust 1.62

• [@00:58] - cargo add
  • Maintaining sorting in TOML files
  • toml_edit
  • cargo-edit
• [@03:37] - #[default] enum variants
  • Generated bounds part of RFC
  • Macro helper attributes
  • Extra bounds on derive
• [@07:36] - Thinner, faster mutexes on Linux
  • Tracking issue
  • Short thread on the change from Mara
  • More details from Mara on pthread mutexes
• [@13:21] - Bare-metal x86_64 target
  • Target triples
  • Tier 2 target policy
  • Tier 2 targets
  • x86_64-unknown-none
  • Custom target triples
• [@22:20] - Stabilized APIs
  • f64::total_cmp
    • Implementing PR
  • Stdin::lines
  • FusedIterator
• [@29:22] - Changelog deep-dive
  • cargo -F for --features
  • unaligned_references lint now warns by default
    • addr_of!

[@31:09] - Rust 1.62.1

Not much to talk about. We also didn’t talk about:

• Rustup 1.25.0
• Rustup 1.25.1

[@31:56] - Rust 1.63

• [@31:56] - Scoped threads
  • The Leakpocalypse issue
  • Pre-Pooping Your Pants With Rust
• [@40:41] - Rust ownership for raw file descriptors
  • Rust I/O Safety RFC
• [@43:45] - const mutex initialization
• [@43:54] - Turbofish and impl Trait arguments
  • Search/replace generics reference
  • Rust reference for turbofish
• [@52:03] - Non-lexical lifetimes migration complete
  • NLL stabilization and borrowck’s future
  • polonius
• [@51:33] - Stabilized APIs
  • array::from_fn
  • Box::into_pin
  • Things Rust-in-Linux needs from Rust
• [@56:27] - Changelog deep-dive
  • cargo --config
  • cargo new test code updated
  • New targets: Apple WatchOS and Nintendo 3DS
  • ​[OsStr]::join
    • The Join trait

[@1:00:24] - Rust 1.64

• [@1:00:32] - IntoFuture
  • Reference in original async/await RFC
  • Original IntoFuture regression
• [@1:03:43] - C-compatible FFI types in core
  • libc crate
  • libcpocalypse
• [@1:09:37] - rust-analyzer component in rustup
  • rust-analyzer proxy binary added to rustup
• [@1:13:19] - Cargo workspace inheritance and multi-target builds
  • Inheriting attributes from the workspace
• [@1:15:58] - Stabilized APIs
  • Stabilization PR for ready!
• [@1:18:03] - Compatibility notes
  • Increasing the glibc and Linux kernel requirements
  • RLS deprecation
• [@1:22:33] - Other changes
  • Profile-Guided Optimization
  • PR landing lint for unused tuple fields
• [@1:25:12] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [build.jobs]
    • Implementing PR for negative values
  • New target: Nintendo Switch
  • Improve derive(Debug)
    • Other internal changes
  • Optimizing Vec::insert

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Allen Wyma talks with Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO at Ockam. Allen and Mrinal talk about Ockham, a toolkit, written in Rust, to build distributed applications that provide trust across hostile networks.

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Timestamps

• [@00:10] - Mrinal’s Introduction
• [@01:01] - What is Ockam?
• [@05:04] - Building Ockam from scratch and building it open source
• [@10:45] - How Ockam provides security with modern data distribution
• [@18:15] - The reason behind building Ockam with Rust
• [@26:15] - Feedback that Ockam received from using Rust & Elixir
• [@28:04] - Concerns with Rust and Elixir
• [@29:38] - The most difficult part of working on Ockam
• [@30:42] - Competing technologies that solve the same issues as Ockam
• [@33:04] - When Ockam is not a good solution
• [@35:15] - What’s next for Ockam
• [@40:17] - Job opportunity with Ockam
• [@41:48] - Why Ockham switched From Erlang to Elixir

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Allen Wyma talks with David Pedersen, Core Team Member at Tokio. Allen and David talk about Axum, a web application framework written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:40] - Introduction
• [@1:13] - Why Axum is developed under the Tokio project umbrella
• [@5:58] - What to expect from Axum
• [@8:14] - Axum additional features
• [@9:40] - Why Tokio decided to roll their own web framework
• [@13:04] - Understanding Axum vs other web frameworks
• [@22:16] - Testing, reviews, and feedback of the Axum framework
• [@23:46] - Axum’s production readiness
• [@28:57] - Semantic versioning
• [@31:59] - Understanding and learning lessons from other web frameworks to improve Axum
• [@34:47] - Production use cases that should use Axum
• [@35:54] - David’s Rust experience vs other web frameworks
• [@40:25] - Clippy
• [@41:41] - Upcoming changes and roadmap for Axum
• [@45:28] - Parting thoughts and how to reach out to David

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Allen Wyma talks with Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Member Board of Directors at Rust Foundation and Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft about Microsoft’s use of Rust, her time being involved with Rust, and also the Rust RFC process..

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Timestamps

• [@1:30] - Nell’s Background and Introduction
• [@5:31] - Rust communities all over the world
• [@7:10] - Handling opinions, feedback and RFCs when making changes and updating a language
• [@11:23] - What is a RFC and how does it work?
• [@17:43] - Nell’s experience switching from Ruby to Rust
• [@19:56] - Nell’s career background
• [@24:18] - How the Rust Foundation operates
• [@24:20] - Rust Foundation’s sponsorship model
• [@33:08] - What Microsoft is currently working on with Rust
• [@42:22] - How much Rust is going into Windows
• [@44:25] - Is there a public long-term plan for Microsoft’s involvement with Rust?
• [@48:02] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Dmitry Stepanov, creator of Fyrox. Fyrox is a feature-rich, general purpose game engine built in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:41] - Dmitry’s background and programming introduction
• [@4:12] - How did Dmitry got into building game engines
• [@7:39] - How Dmitry discovered Rust
• [@8:57] - Dmitry’s experience so far using Rust
• [@12:13] - When did Dmitry start working on Fyrox
• [@15:03] - What’s the original idea of Fyrox
• [@16:23] - The advantage of Fyrox over other game engines
• [@22:05] - Is Fyrox production ready?
• [@23:17] - Games and projects that are now using Fyrox
• [@25:58] - Things need to know before using Fyrox game engine
• [@30:21] - Fyrox’s monetization plan
• [@31:33] - Dmitry’s upcoming features and plans for Fyrox

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• Fyrox’s Github

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Allen Wyma talks with Daniel Thompson-Yvetot, co-founder of Tauri. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms using a variety of front-end frameworks.

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• [@0:33] - Daniel’s introduction
• [@3:38] - Tauri’s focus on safety and security
• [@6:50] - Tauri’s mission to reduce their footprint
• [@14:48] - How does Tauri handles features that are not supported across different platforms
• [@23:56] - How does Tauri monetize to keep the project going?
• [@26:16] - Why choose Tauri over other solutions?
• [@28:57] - What are the tools being built with Tauri?
• [@31:09] - Tyler’s programming background
• [@35:11] - Tauri’s future release and features
• [@38:38] - ‘Tauri Foundations’ book by Daniel Thompson-Yvetot and Lucas Nogueira
• [@40:00] - Requirement on building a Tauri app
• [@43:13] - Parting thoughts

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• Tauri’s Github

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Allen Wyma talks with Tyler Mandry, lead on Rust Async Working Group. Rust Async Working Group is focused around implementation/design of the “foundations” for Async I/O.

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Timestamps

• [@0:10] - Async Working Group introduction
• [@3:08] - Async progress over the past few years
• [@5:16] - The Fuchsia operating system and its goals
• [@6:19] - How much of Fushia is written in Rust?
• [@8:16] - The experience of using Rust in Fuchsia so far
• [@17:29] - Why are async runtimes not compatible with each other, and how might it be solved?
• [@23:06] - How does the working group handle feedback?
• [@25:33] - What’s the most important issue the working group is working on?
• [@32:45] - Different types of async runtimes
• [@34:36] - Turning synchronous into async
• [@39:36] - How did Tyler go from async C++ to async Rust?
• [@47:14] - Tyler’s code and documentation writing
• [@54:21] - Where to connect with Tyler

Other Resources

• Tyler’s Blog

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Allen Wyma talks with Tiemoko Ballo, author of High Assurance Rust. High Assurance Rust is a book about building performant software we can justifiably trust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:34] - Tiemeko’s introduction
• [@2:18] - Defining Safety critical and Mission critical
• [@3:22] - How to develop software in Rust and have a high assurance?
• [@8:21] - The lack of standardized behavior and different compilers
• [@13:29] - Different approaches to assurance testing
• [@14:54] - How does Rust’s memory safety work?
• [@20:57] - Temporal memory
• [@22:59] - What is a borrow checker and how do we know that it’s working properly?
• [@28:17] - The difference between fuzz testing, property-based testing, and chaos testing
• [@35:48] - Teimoko’s programming background
• [@42:55] - Teimoko’s work and projects
• [@46:15] - Rust’s error handling and concurrency advantages over other languages
• [@49:29] - What Rust lacks in terms of guaranteeing high assurance and justifiability
• [@53:17] - How to stay up to date on what’s happening in the security space.
• [@54:35] - Parting thoughts

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Allen Wyma talks with Chris Krycho, host of the now-ended New Rustacean podcast about learning the Rust programming language.

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Timestamps

• [@1:08] - Chris’ background and introduction
• [@4:33] - Chris’ current career and projects
• [@12:17] - Rust and WebAssembly
• [@19:35] - Chris’ podcasting plans
• [@23:47] - Chris’ podcasting preparation and processes
• [@36:02] - Lessons and insights coming from podcasting
• [@48:08] - ZSH vs Fish
• [@53:12] - Picking out potential podcast guests and making great interviews
• [@57:12] - Chris’ opinion and comparison on the different programming languages
• [@1:07:33] - Chris’ parting thoughts and future plans

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• Chris’s Twitter

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Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 446, presented by Allen and Tim, with Nell Shamrell-Harrington, co-hosting for the first time in 2022.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00:00] Welcome

• [@00:00:10] - Introduction
• [@00:00:52] - Agenda
• [@00:01:27] - Interview with Nell Shamrell-Harrington about editing This Week in Rust
  • [@00:06:21] Submitting an article to This week in Rust
  • TWIR Github Repository github.com/rust-lang/this-week-in-rust
  • TWIR Twitter account @thisweekinrust
  • [@00:07:42] Call for volunteers to co-host an episode
• [@00:08:38] - Quote of the week

  I wrote a bespoke time-series database in Rust a few years ago, and it has had exactly one issue since I stood it up in production, and that was due to pessimistic filesystem access patterns, rather than the language. This thing is handling hundreds of thousands of inserts per second, and it’s even threaded.

  Given that I’ve been programming professionally for over a decade in Python, Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Javascript, Java, and Rust, I’ll pick Rust absolutely any time that I want something running that I won’t get called at 3 AM to fix. It probably took me 5 times as long to write it as if I did it in Go or Python, but I guarantee it’s saved me 10 times as much time I would have otherwise spent triaging, debugging, and running disaster recovery.

  • “Configuring uWSGI for Production Deployment” (2019) by at Peter Sperl and Ben Green from Bloomberg
  • uWSGI’s max-requests and max-worker-lifetime options are intended to reduce the chance of memory leaks affecting production workloads
• [@00:14:47] - Crate of the week: osmpbf

  A Rust library for reading the OpenStreetMap PBF file format (*.osm.pbf). It strives to offer the best performance using parallelization and lazy-decoding with a simple interface while also exposing iterators for items of every level in a PBF file.

  • OpenStreetMap
  • Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)

[@00:16:40] Official Notices

• [@00:16:43] - Rust Compiler June 2022 Steering Cycle

[@00:21:24] Highlights

• [@00:21:51] (async) Rust doesn’t have to be hard
  • Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
  • Stack Overflow Developer Survey: Most loved programming language
• [@00:28:28] clippy book
• [@00:29:40] Rolling co-lead roles for T-compiler
• [@00:36:33] Hyper vs Rocket - Low Level vs Batteries included
  • Rust is surprisingly expressive (2013) by Steve Klabnik
• [@00:40:00] Macro Patterns - A match made in heaven by Conrad Ludgate
• [@00:41:11] Web Scraping with Rust by Gints Dreimanis
  • Hyper with Sean McArthur
• [@00:44:09] Trivia About Rust Types: An (Authorized) Transcription of Jon Gjengset’s Twitter Thread by Jimmy Hartzell
• [@00:46:01] Rust language’s explosive popularity comes with challenges by Ed Targett
  • “A proactive approach to more secure code” (2019) by Microsoft Security Response Center
  • Project Zero team at Google
  • [audio] Rust Foundation with Rebecca Rumbul

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Allen Wyma talks with Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig. Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

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Timestamps

• [@0:51] - Andrew’s introduction
• [@2:55] - Rust vs Zig
• [@5:27] - What is undefined behavior (UB) and what causes it?
• [@11:37] - How does Zig deal with undefined behavior?
• [@16:09] - How well does Zig work in production?
• [@22:46] - Deeper dive into Andrew’s programming background
• [@33:35] - Zig’s mission statement and what they’re doing as a non-profit
• [@37:38] - Zig’s update release management
• [@40:06] - Andrew’s OkCupid project
• [@42:20] - Andrew’s preparations and motivations for making a language
• [@46:11] - Zig using LLVM
• [@49:12] - What’s next for Zig?
• [@54:20] - Parting thoughts

Other Resources

• Zig’s Github
• Andrew’s Github

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.60 and 1.61 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:15] - Rust 1.60

• [@01:45] - Source-Based Code Coverage
  • -Cinstrument-coverage documentation
  • grcov
  • cargo-llvm-cov
• [@08:21] - cargo --timings
  • Example output for Cargo build
  • Cargo documentation
• [@10:21] - New syntax for Cargo features
  • Optional dependencies
  • Dependency features
• [@17:06] - Incremental compilation status
  • Incremental disabled in 1.59
• [@20:06] - Instant monotonicity guarantees
  • “And now we come upon a sad state of affairs”
  • PR moving from Mutex to AtomicU64
  • PR removing backsliding protection
• [@26:01] - Stabilized APIs
  • Arc::new_cyclic
    • Source for Arc::new_cyclic
  • <[u8]>::escape_ascii
  • usize::abs_diff
• [@32:27] - Changelog deep-dive
  • Stabilize #[cfg(panic = "..")]
  • Port cargo from toml-rs to toml_edit
    • toml_edit crate
  • Adding OpenWRT target
    • OpenWRT

[@36:59] - Rust 1.61

• [@36:59] - Custom exit codes from main
  • Termination
  • ExitCode
  • Why ExitCode is opaque
  • try_trait_v2
• [@45:05] - More capabilities for const fn
  • Meta tracking issue for const fn
• [@52:20] - Static handles for locked stdio
  • Stdout::lock
• [@54:33] - Stabilized APIs
  • Vec::retain_mut
  • <*const T>::offset
• [@59:22] - Changelog deep-dive
  • std::thread::available_parallelism
    • Respecting Linux cgroups
    • Cargo dropping num_cpus
  • Sparse registries RFC
    • Implementation
    • Call for testing
  • Linux baseline requirements bump
    • Likely landing in 1.64
  • Compatibility Notes
  • #[ignore = ".."]
  • Removing “everybody loops”
    • When rustdoc stopped looping everybody

[@1:12:55] - Rust 2024 Roadmap

• Living roadmap

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Allen Wyma talks with Grant Gurvis, Founding Engineer at Fig. Fig adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal.

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Timestamps

• [@0:32] - Grant’s bio and Fig introduction
• [@4:25] - Fig’s support and integration expansion
• [@6:05] - Differentiating Warp and Fig
• [@8:38] - Changes that need to happen in order to support Linux and Windows
• [@10:36] - Fig’s switch to Rust
• [@18:40] - Grant’s experience using different programming platforms
• [@25:06] - Fig’s monetization plans
• [@26:53] - Fig’s user reviews and feedback
• [@29:55] - Opportunites for Rust engineers

Other Resources

• Fig’s GitHub
• Grant’s GitHub

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Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 445, presented by Tim and Allen. Themes for the discussion include getting work as a Rust developer, creating a specification for Rust, and the health of the community.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00] Welcome

• [@00:10] - Introduction
• [@01:49] - Agenda
• [@02:44] - Quote of the week

  Rust is a perfect language for a dad like me, who every day puts kids to sleep, and tired after long day of work and chores, can sit down and possibly write some code for the hobby open source project, even when he’s already just half awake. And it usually just works, tend to be robust and make the day feel extra productive.

• [@04:14] - Crate of the week
  • Tectonic
  • d3.js
  • matplotlib

[@07:26] Official Notices

• [@07:30] - Concluding the events of last November

[@14:20] Highlights

• [@14:27] - [video] Rust makes you feel like a GENIUS by Tris Oaten
  • [video] Wat lightning talk
  • [video] Rust: Your code can be perfect
• [@18:32] - Builder Lite pattern by matklad
• [@22:06] - The Rust Jobs Market by Alfie John
• [@26:55] - Introducing the Ferrocene Language Specification by Ferrous Systems
  • Ferrous Systems and AdaCore to join forces on Ferrocene
  • [audio] Rust Safety with Quentin Ochem and Florian Gilcher
  • High Assurance Rust
• [@32:12] Simple rust interview questions by Maciej Flak
• [@36:36] PR 97046: improve case conversion happy path by Conrad Ludgate

Other items

• [@39:12] Call for Participation: mirrord
• [@39:25] RFC: create a “types team”
• [@40:37] PR: improve error message for E0081

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Allen Wyma talks with Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director and CEO at Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

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Timestamps

• [@1:00] - Rebecca’s Bio
• [@2:36] - The Rust Foundation
• [@7:27] - How the Rust Foundation deals with legal work
• [@9:26] - How the Rust Foundation helps all contributors
• [@12:47] - Scoring matrix to measure the value
• [@15:20] - DevX Initiative & Ernest Kissiedu
• [@17:14] - Competing in funding projects
• [@20:29] - Applying for a membership in The Rust Foundation
• [@23:25] - Company membership benefits
• [@28:34] - The Rust Foundation can potentially connect people and projects
• [@31:08] - Board member Nell Shamrell-Harrington & The Rust Foundation sponsoring
• [@35:00] - Rebecca on making tough decisions
• [@36:46] - Nell’s weekly newsletter
• [@40:20] - What makes a company pay for a Platinum membership?
• [@44:21] - Rebecca’s background
• [@49:28] - Anything difficult in running The Rust Foundation?
• [@51:16] - Future plans for Rust Foundation
• [@54:12] - Contacting The Rust Foundation
• [@54:48] - Parting words

Other Resources

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma

Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 444. This week features a juicy post-mortem, open source, open hardware, and lots of news from around the Rust ecosystem.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00] Welcome

• [@00:10] - Introduction
• [@00:50] - Agenda
• [@01:23] - Quote of the week

  This is the difference in approaches of the two languages. In C++ if the code is vulnerable, the blame is on the programmer. In Rust if the code is vulnerable, Rust considers it a failure of the language, and takes responsibility to stop even “bad” programmers from writing vulnerable code. I can’t stress enough how awesome it is that I can be a careless fool, and still write perfectly robust highly multi-threaded code that never crashes.

  • [@03:09] Allen: Rust is both good and bad at marketing
• [@03:30] - Crate of the week
  • [@04:15] - Tim and Sean discuss parsing in episode 2022-05-26 at 47:10

[@05:10] Official Notices

• [@05:22] - Announcing Rust 1.61.0
  • Custom exit codes from main
    • [Note from Tim: I say “termination crate”, but should have said “Termination trait”.]
  • More capabilities for const fn
    • “Basic” handling of fn pointers
    • Add trait bounds to a const fn
    • dyn trait and impl Trait support
  • Stdio handles can be locked directly
  • Several stabilized APIs

[@08:07] Highlights

• [@08:27] - Developer survey: JavaScript and Python reign, but Rust is rising
  • [@09:09] - Sean: “Rust adoption has nearly quadrupled in the last two years, going from 600k developers in Q1 2022 to 2.2m in Q1 2022.”
• [@13:00] - Redust by Will Nelson
  • [@13:50] Allen: I think the comments are actually more interesting. They are starting to point to something really—I don’t know whether it’s good or bad for the community—where, you know, people start rolling their own crates instead of, say, doing stuff upstream. It kind of goes back to what Tim was complaining about before [Easy Mode for Rust, discussed on This Week in Rust - Issue 441]—well, lightly pointing out to people out there—that okay, now which crate should I use?
  • [@16:20] Tim: Open source is really complicated. You need to talk to people. That’s … challenging. [Laughs]
  • [@16:40] Josh Triplett on Building with Rust, discussing the orphan rule
  • [@16:50] Sean: Rust is not very good at sharing between crates.
• [@19:07] - Rust: A Critical Retrospective by bunnie
  • Links
    • The Hardware Hacker, bunnie’s autobiography
    • [video] “Shenzhen: An Alternative to the American way of Innovation”
    • [@28:56] A Programmer’s Brain, by Felienne Hermans, about working memory in programmers.
  • [@19:58] - Hacking the Xbox book
  • [@20:04] - [video] Linux.conf.au 2013 keynote discussing Chumby and creating a hardware startup
  • [@20:20] - betrusted.io, a secure communications system that runs the Xous microkernel operating system
  • [@21:07] - Tim: Security-critical applications have issues when they … rely on Rust. There’s one quote I want to pull out of the post, which is: “I’m not sure if there is even a good solution to this problem, but, if you are super-paranoid and your goal is to be able to build trustable firmware, be wary of Rust’s expansive software supply chain attack surface!”
  • [@26:09] - Sean: bunnie I think that you are absolutely, totally, qualified.
  • [@30:17] - Allen: I did see a macro that he put in there. … I forget extact. It was very crazy and I was like, “Come on, no one’s every going to write something crazy like this” and then I took a look at the RFC that Sean’s gonna do and in the comments there was a crazy one like that and I was like, “oh wow, this guy’s point’s valid”.
  • [@30:49] - Hyrum’s Law, named after Hyrum Wright.

    With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.

• [@31:50] Fixing memory leaks by Lily Mara
  • [@34:01] - tracing crate, created as part of the tokio project
  • [@32:33] - “Is it possible to cause a memory leak in Rust?” - Stack Overflow
  • [@33:06] - std::ops::Drop trait documentation
  • std::mem::forget and Box::leak for intentionally leaking memory
  • Out-of memory (OOM) killer internals page from the Linux memory management wiki
  • [@37:54] tracing::instrument::Instrument trait, which fixes this issue
• [@41:29] Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust by Yingjun Wu
  • GAT (generic associated traits)
  • Allen: [C++ vs Rust] is like apples vs apple pie.
• [@45:50] - [video] Deref and Drop traits by Dan Chiarlone
  • “Smart pointers”, chapter 15 of The Rust Programming Language.
  • std::ops::Deref trait documentation
• [@46:40] - Optimizing the size of your Rust binaries by Sylvain Kerkour
  • cargo-bloat, for determining the size impact of code and dependencies
  • twiggy, a similar tool for WASM targets
• [@48:10] - RFC: Add more support for fallible allocations in Vec by Daniel Paoliello and contributors
  • Sean: This RFC is intended as a stop-gap, to unblock on-going work like—I imagine—adding Rust to the Linux kernel while better long-term solutions are explored.
  • “Example: Implementing Vec” chapter of the Rustnomicon, describes how Vec’s memory allocation works in detail
  • Never type reference documentation
  • [@54:40] Tim: I want to bring out a comment that was made to me in private, because I’ve been toying with the idea of becoming a rustc contributor, particularly on the standard library side, and Ashley Mannix sent me a really lovely note, which was: “Rust is also chronically friendly so nobody gets chewed out for making mistakes. They happen. They get caught. They get patched. You learn something new. It’s ok.”.
• [@55:51] - How we use Rust, SQLx and Rocket for Oso Cloud by Steve Olsen

Other items

• [@57:20] Meetups
• [@57:31] Major release announcements
  • DataFusion 8.0
  • IntelliJ Rust plugin 2022.1
• [@57:40] Join us in the #this-week-in-rust channel of the Rustacean Station Discord server

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Aleksandar Nikolic

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Tim McNamara

Hosts: Tim McNamara, Sean Chen, and Allen Wyma.

Allen Wyma talks with Emil Ernerfeldt, creator of egui. egui is a simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust. egui runs on the web, natively, and in your favorite game engine (or will soon).

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Timestamps

• [@0:41] - History of Emil’s last name “Ernerfeldt”
• [@1:25] - Getting Emil on this podcast
• [@4:06] - Emil’s Bio and egui
• [@11:52] - Building egui
• [@16:47] - Immediate mode
• [@26:27] - Knowing when to use egui
• [@31:35] - Parent-child contraints
• [@34:21] - Immediate mode is dynamic
• [@36:22] - Refresh rate and Continuous mode
• [@39:11] - Themes in egui
• [@39:59] - egui more for development or client side app?
• [@45:17] - Opinions on hiring people and Emil’s company
• [@49:09] - Opinions on products built by you vs built by others
• [@53:48] - Other GUIs
• [@56:54] - Future plans on egui
• [@58:45] - Anything else you want to mention?

Other Resources

• egui’s Github
• Emil’s Github

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma

Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 443. This week features a new section within the newsletter as well as the hosts Sean, Allen and Tim chatting about compilers, front-end development, extending databases with Rust and more.

Contributing to Rustacean Station

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@00:00] Welcome

• [@00:10] - Introduction
• [@00:50] - Agenda
• [@01:20] - Quote of the week
• [@02:50] - Crate of the week

[@03:30] Highlights

• [@03:45] - Things are Getting Rusty in Kernel Land
  • Rust for Linux GitHub org
  • Version 6 of the Rust patchset
  • Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust LWN article discussing the Linux Plumbers 2020 session that kicked off the effort
  • Prossimo funding the effort, sponsored by Google
• [@09:45] - The Rust Borrow Checker - A Deep Dive
  • MIR (Mid-level representation) introduction
  • From MIR to binaries discusses how binaries are generated
  • MIR borrow check section of the rustc dev guide
  • rustc_borrowck crate within the compiler
• [@14:40] - PixelBox Public Alpha
  • PixelBox source code
  • egui GUI framework for Rust
  • PyTorch, a popular Python wrapper for the Torch machine learning framework
  • ONNX machine learning format
• [@18:00] - Rust Ergonomics: Default and From
  • std::default::Default trait documentation
  • std::convert::From trait documentation
  • std::convert::Into trait documentation
  • Code Like a Pro in Rust book by Brendan Matthews, published by Manning
• [@23:30] - Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust
  • YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby
  • [talk] MoreVMs’21: “YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby” – Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
• [@30:30] - Asteracea
  • JSX introduction, from the ReactJS project
  • [audio] Carl Lerche on macros (skip to 28:25)
  • How does WebAssembly fit into the web platform?, an article discussing the interacting with the DOM from wasm.
• [@37:46] - Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust
  • Haskell Session Types with (Almost) No Class
  • [pdf] Session Types for Rust
  • Session type
  • Affine type, definition from Wikipedia. [Note from Tim: the definition provided by me in the podcast is incorrect. The term “affine type” is derived from affine logic, not affine transformation.]
• [@40:40] - New newsletter section: Call for testing
  • RFC: Deduplicate cargo workspace information
  • Scoped threads in the standard library
  • crossbeam crate
  • rustc dev guide
• [@45:45] - [video] Neon - Building a Postgres storage system in Rust
  • pgx crate for extending PostgreSQL in Rust
  • neon database source code
• [@50:55] - Extending SQLite with Rust
  • Stored procedure English Wikipedia article

Other items

• [@59:30] Final Comment Period for RFCs, PRs
• [@59:42] What is “yeet”?

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Brógan Molloy

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Tim McNamara

Hosts: Tim McNamara, Sean Chen, and Allen Wyma.

Allen Wyma talks with Kyle Machulis, lead developer on Buttplug. Buttplug is an open-source standards and software project for controlling intimate hardware such as sex toys.

Contributing to Rustacean Station

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Timestamps

• [@0:58] - Kyle’s Introduction
• [@3:17] - What got Kyle into sex tech and why start Buttplug
• [@9:08] - How does Buttplug operate and what functions does it provide?
• [@11:45] - How did Rust come into their project?
• [@19:48] - How was their experience with the Rust community?
• [@28:05] - What protocols does Buttplug use and develop?
• [@33:33] - Buttplug’s capabilities, limitations, and safety protocols
• [@44:23] - Why the name “Buttplug”?
• [@51:53] - Buttplug’s push for not just entertainment but also health and wellness purposes
• [@56:07] - How people can help contribute to pushing Buttplug’s project
• [@59:45] - Kyle’s parting thoughts