Rustacean Station

Allen Wyma talks with Ed Page, maintainer of clap. Command Line Argument Parser (clap) is a library to help create CLI apps using Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:41] - Ed’s introduction of clap [@3:09] - What makes clap better than other parsing solutions? [@7:30] - Ed’s programming background [@10:10] - Ed’s comparison of Rust vs other programming languages [@14:06] - Ed and his team’s participation in the Rust community [@22:07] - Futurewei’s Rust development efforts [@26:51] - How did Ed start in Rust and what took him to clap [@32:05] - How does clap handle customization. [@34:28] - clap’s 3.0 & 3.1 release [@42:03] - What are the future plans for clap [@47:40] - argparse vs Click [@51:34] - Ongoing plans for clap’s improvement [@53:45] - Ed’s efforts on keeping CLI alive [@56:09] - What is cargo-script? [@1:03:12] - Ed’s view about the state of education in Rust [@1:08:06] - Ed’s tips and tricks for beginners. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Armin Ronacher, creator of Deser. Deser is an experimental serialization system for Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:50] - Armin’s background [@2:49] - The difference between Jinja & Jinja2 [@3:47] - What is Twig? [@4:14] - Where did the names Jinja & Twig come from? [@7:36] - What makes Jinja2 good in portablility? [@12:46] - Armin’s programming history [@16:07] - How did Armin go from Delphi to Python? [@19:18] - The Pocoo team [@23:25] - When did Armin start using Rust? [@27:26] - The pros & cons of mixing Python and Rust together [@36:14] - Stacktrace errors [@41:41] - How does Armin deal with developers having different compilers in a working environment. [@45:57] - Armin talks about Serde and other serialization challenges [@55:33] - Serialization Frameworks [@1:04:23] - Where to check out Armin’s library: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/deser [@1:07:34] - Armin’s tips and tricks for people starting in Rust Other Resources Armin’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Marty Jones, creator of Purdy. Purdy is an experimental PDF renderer built on top of WebGPU. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:55] - Marty’s Background [@4:06] - What sparked Marty’s interest in PDFs [@6:21] - What kind of primitives are built into PDF? [@8:56] - How to solve edge cases in PDFs? [@11:54] - Property-based testing [@16:54] - The deciding factor that got Marty into creating his library. [@19:59] - What is Web GPU [@22:13] - Marty’s goal with PDF JS [@24:08] - Why use PDF JS? [@29:02] - Why Marty used Rust instead of JavaScript [@30:15] - What’s next with PDF JS? [@36:51] - Legalities of PDFs [@41:42] - How to reach Marty Other Resources Marty’s Github What is unique about PDF rendering? Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Nathan Stocks, creator of Rusty Engine. Rusty Engine is a simple 2D game engine for those who are learning Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:46] - Nathan’s background and programming history [@11:08] - Nathan talks about his Python course and other programming languages [@18:13] - What led Nathan to create his Rust course [@25:12] - Bevy & other game engines [@36:50] - Nathan’s views and opinions with Unreal Engine [@40:59] - Malware and other safety issues with Rust [@43:20] - Why Nathan prefers Rust over other languages [@47:15] - Nathan’s experience working with Go [@53:37] - Nathan’s announcement with his ongoing course [@54:41] - Nathan’s tips and tricks for beginners who want to learn Rust Other Resources Nathan’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Prabhu Eshwarla, author of Rust Servers, Services, and Apps. Rust Servers, Services, and Apps teaches you how to build web servers, RESTful services, server-rendered apps, and client front-ends in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:49] - Prabhu’s Introduction [@1:28] - Elixir vs Rust [@4:20] - Prabhu’s Phoenix experience [@8:09] - What is required to do web development? [@25:09] - Java vs Rust [@29:07] - Asynchronous programming vs multithreading [@34:13] - Why Rust is a good choice for blockchain [@42:12] - What is Blockchain? [@53:34] - Next generation of blockchain - Assests, NFTs, Data Storage [@1:02:50] - Why Prabhu thinks Rust is the right language for web development [@1:04:42] - Prabhu’s tips for people who are beginners in Rust [@1:09:42] - Prabhu’s book and parting thoughts. Other Resources Zeeshan’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Roel, creator of id3. id3 is a Rust library used for reading id3. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:44] - Roel’s Bio [@1:59] - What is ID3? [@4:41] - What does ID3 tech consists of and what is its structure? [@09:08] - What got Roel interested in ID3? [@10:49] - What are some notable projects that use ID3? [@19:57] - ID3 Future Roadmap [@24:37] - The Rust Community in the Netherlands [@25:30] - Go vs Rust [@29:23] - Roel’s programs and upcoming events [@31:37] - Hackerspace and Roel’s parting thoughts Other Resources Roel’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Martin Loncaric, creator of PancakeDB. PancakeDB is a database that focuses on low latency ingestion of data. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:35] - Martin’s Bio [@1:30] - What is PancakeDB? [@5:48] - How does Pancake compare to CSV & Parquet? [@7:09] - Where did the idea of working on PancakeDB come from? [@9:25] - PancakeDB license & monetization [@14:00] - What makes PancakeDB so highly performant [@18:21] - How Martin got into Big Data [@21:22] - How PancakeDB addresses the data ingestion problem [@26:28] - Where did the name Pancake DB come from? [@27:42] - Recommended ways to implement data ingestion [@30:37] - Rust vs other languages when it comes to data processing [@34:05] - What brought Martin to Rust [@37:23] - How can Rust improve & Martin’s parting thoughts Other Resources Martin’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.58 and 1.59 releases of Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:10] - Rust 1.58 [@01:18] - Captured identifiers in format strings [@07:40] - Reduced Windows Command search path ripgrep CVE ripgrep fix commit [@11:05] - More #[must_use] in the standard library Tracking issue for #[must_use] PRs When to use #[must_use] [@17:16] - Stabilized APIs std::fs::OpenOptions Tracking issue for *::unwrap_unchecked [@22:50] - Rust 1.58.1 Security Advisory C++ is probably also vulnerable [@27:15] - Rust 1.59 [@28:00] - Inline assembly std::intrinsics Inline assembly by example [@39:06] - Destructuring assignments [@44:00] - Const generics defaults and interleaving [@46:11] - Future incompatibility warnings [@51:28] - Creating stripped binaries [@53:54] - Incremental compilation off by default Incremental disabled back in Rust 1.52.1 The identified issue [@58:50] - Stabilized APIs available_parallelism num_cpus crate [@1:03:04] - Changelog deep-dive cargo r -r Tracking issue for v0 symbol mangling Switching to v0 by default HashSet and HashMap method bounds changed fantoccini using multiple impl blocks Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Aerocity Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

Allen Wyma talks with Nick Mathewson, one of the creators of Tor Project. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:39] - Nick’s Bio & Tor Project Introduction [@2:33] - Deeper dive into Tor [@8:07] - Advantage of Rust over C when trying to bring stronger privacy to internet. [@21:44] - The History of Tor [@26:02] - How does Tor stay in business despite being a free service? [@28:11] - What is Onion Routing and how does it work at a high level? [@38:54] - The Tor Browser [@42:14] - Advise on how to maintain anonymity online [@55:17] - Rust vs other languages [@1:03:54] - Tips & tricks for people who are starting off in Rust [@1:06:00] - Parting thoughts Other Resources Tor’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Zeeshan Ali, creator of zbus. zbus is a Rust library used for interprocess communication using D-Bus. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:51] - Zeeshan’s Bio and zbus [@7:16] - D-Bus at the high level [@14:43] - Knowing when to use D-Bus or message queue [@19:28] - Authentication methods when going non-local [@20:16] - Is it possible to use D-Bus on Kubernetes? [@22:00] - zbus is able to support multiple async runtimes [@28:18] - Difference between Tokio and async-std [@32:30] - Async Foundations working group [@40:06] - Is it expensive to run async runtime? [@41:37] - zbus macros and their Matrix channel [@44:00] - IPC (Inter-Process Communication) Other Resources Zeeshan’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma