The University of Waterloo Computer Science Program

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

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma