Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust. The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring:Tim McNamara – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: 📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust 🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara 📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io 📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday 📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog 📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust Rust on AWS Rust Nation 2023 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Tim McNamara, founder of Accelerant and author of "Rust in Action," shares his insights on effectively teaching and learning Rust. He discusses the common challenges learners face, citing concepts like borrowing and ownership as particularly tricky. Tim emphasizes the significance of simplifying language and providing supportive resources for beginners. He also highlights the upcoming Rust Forge conference in New Zealand, aiming to foster community engagement and collaboration, while addressing the importance of the Rust Foundation's role in supporting the language's growth.

Tim McNamara, a renowned Rust educator and author of "Rust in Action," delves into the intricacies of error handling in Rust. He explains the four levels of error management and contrasts Rust's approach with traditional languages. The discussion highlights the power of the Result type, Rust Enums, and the question mark operator. McNamara stresses best practices and how to effectively deal with errors, particularly when interfacing with foreign function interfaces. His insights make grasping Rust’s unique error handling both enlightening and essential for developers.