Allen Wyma talks with Lily Mara, the author of the book Refactoring to Rust.
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Timestamps
- [@1:26] - Lily’s Bio
- [@3:33] - Her blogs helped her improve her writing
- [@5:09] - How the book came to be
- [@9:34] - Knowing when to add a new language to an existing project
- [@12:07] - Tools for measuring memory usage
- [@15:04] - Garbage collection
- [@18:30] - Strongly and weakly typed languages & dynamic vs static dispatch
- [@21:13] - About the book
- [@25:40] - Go being treated like a C library
- [@27:02] - Memory allocators
- [@35:51] - When did Lily started working on the book?
- [@37:44] - Writing examples (it’s hard!)
- [@46:36] - How technical are the editors?
- [@49:00] - The Rust community is very welcoming
- [@50:14] - Publishers that are publishing Rust books
- [@52:17] - Lily’s Twitch stream for Manning
- [@53:07] - Lily’s advice for aspiring Rust developers
Other Resources
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma