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Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt

Aug 7, 2024

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Emil Ernerfeldt, Co-Founder and CTO of Rerun, discusses his journey in game development and his innovative work on an open-source SDK for visualizing multimodal data. He explains how Rerun enhances data interaction for applications in augmented and virtual reality. Emil highlights the advantages of using Rust in software development, particularly with his GUI library, egui. The conversation also touches on the challenges and future of data visualization tools, specifically in robotics and computer vision.

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Quick takeaways

Emil Ernerfeldt highlights the significance of Rerun's open-source SDK in streamlining multimodal data visualization for diverse applications.

The discussion emphasizes Emil's game development background, illustrating how it shaped his approach to building efficient and effective developer tools.

Deep dives

Overview of Rerun and Its Applications

Rerun is an open-source software development kit (SDK) designed for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK enables users to seamlessly send data from various sources, while the viewer collects and organizes this data, allowing users to navigate through it over time for better interpretation. This powerful tool has found applications in spatial computing and various realms of reality technology, including augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. The platform simplifies complex data visualization, making it invaluable for developers working with intricate datasets in fields such as robotics and computer vision.

Intro

2min

From Passion to Innovation in Tech

17min

The Advantages of Rust and E-GUI in Software Development

3min

Harnessing Rerun SDK for Diverse Data Types

8min

Ease of Use and Customization in Data Visualization Tools

6min

Rerun: Revolutionizing Data Visualization in Robotics

10min

Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality.

Emil Ernerfeldt is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rerun. Emil is also the creator of egui which is a popular GUI library written in Rust. He joins the podcast to talk about his history in game development, building super fast tools, and developing Rerun.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.