Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side (Interview)

Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. We discuss Sean’s path to working full-time on Rails, what he works on specifically, why Rust, why Diesel, and how much of Diesel’s design and featureset is a product of his experience with ActiveRecord and Rails.

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Featuring:

• Sean Griffin – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Ruby on Rails - a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
• activerecord on GitHub
• Rust - a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
• diesel on GitHub
• Diesel website and docs
• RustConf

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