Navigating the Shift: JavaScript to Rust

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action about what Rust is, how to get started learning Rust, and ideas of good projects to begin learning Rust with.

• 00:37 Welcome
• 01:26 Guest introduction
• Rust in Action
• Tim on Twitter
• Tim on YouTube
• 03:51 What was it like to write a book on Rust?
• 07:52 What drew you to Rust?
• 13:01 The approachability of Rust
• 21:41 What’s a good introductory project with Rust?
• 25:15 Why would someone learn Rust?
• It’s time to try WASM
• 40:23 What is a crate and cargo in Rust?
• 44:17 Running Rust in various places
• 50:53 Should the average web developer try Rust?
• 52:13 Supper club questions
• 54:17 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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• Tim McNamara - How to learn Rust

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