The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side (Interview)
Nov 4, 2017
01:16:08
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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