Navigating Go's Garbage Collection and Concurrency Challenges

Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented in Rust.

Contributing to Rustacean Station

Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!

• Twitter: @rustaceanfm
• Discord: Rustacean Station
• Github: @rustacean-station
• Email: hello@rustacean-station.org

Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems
• [@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint
• [@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase
• [@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite
• [@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods
• [@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites
• [@40:42] - Closing thoughts

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma