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Jan 22, 2022 • 55min
Gitoxide with Sebastian Thiel
Allen Wyma talks with Sebastian Thiel, creator of Gitoxide.
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Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@0:31] - Gitoxide
[@6:29] - Reasons why Sebastian chose Rust
[@9:45] - Story of Gitoxide
[@13:29] - Status of Gitoxide
[@15:41] - git2
[@23:24] - “Gix” is now “Ein”
[@28:14] - JGit
[@32:02] - Reference for the implementation of Gitoxide
[@38:31] - Getting sponsored for Gitoxide
[@41:56] - Accounting timesheet and the vision for Gitoxide
[@48:38] - Ways to help Gitoxide
[@50:00] - Tips for beginners in Rust
Other Resources
Sebastian’s Github
Learn Rust with Gitoxide - Youtube
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jan 14, 2022 • 1h 13min
Lumen with Paul Schoenfelder
Allen Wyma talks with Paul Schoenfelder, contributor to Lumen.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
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Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@0:27] - Paul’s Bio and Lumen
[@4:30] - Lumen can only compile Erlang
[@9:26] - SSA (Static Single Assignment)
[@12:02] - BEAM
[@22:03] - Web Assembly
[@25:02] - Rust makes low level stuff easy to implement
[@34:44] - WASM Browser limitations
[@37:01] - Erlang’s Observer and Distribution Protocol
[@41:10] - What is WASM (Web Assembly)?
[@49:01] - WASI (WebAssembly System Interface)
[@55:31] - Why should I learn another language when I can stick with Javascript?
[@1:01:30] - The WASM working group vs The community group
[@1:08:39] - How to participate in Lumen?
Other Resources
Lumen’s Github
Paul’s Github
Paul’s Website
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jan 7, 2022 • 47min
Yew with Julius Lungys
Allen Wyma talks with Julius Lungys, contributor to Yew.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
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Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@1:29] - Core values and benefits of Yew
[@3:32] - The performance of Yew
[@6:57] - Cargo workspaces
[@8:05] - Trunk & Wasm-pack
[@10:07] - Virtual DOM & Debugging
[@11:24] - Source Maps in Yew
[@12:21] - Krustlet
[@13:34] - Reasons to choose Wasm over JavaScript
[@15:26] - Ecosystem of Yew
[@16:32] - Glue package
[@21:32] - How Yew relates to Elm
[@22:32] - Functional Components
[@25:05] - Server Side Rendering (SSR)
[@26:52] - When should you consider Yew
[@34:24] - TypeScript
[@38:46] - Is Yew limited to the browser?
[@39:56] - Electron
[@41:03] - Yew’s browser support
[@44:14] - Tips for beginners from Julius
Other Resources
Julius’s Github
The Company (Nikulipe)
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Dec 31, 2021 • 47min
LibertyOS with Daniel Teberian
Allen Wyma talks with Daniel Teberian, the creator of LibertyOS.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
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Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@0:41] - Daniel’s Bio
[@3:14] - Recent work on LibertyOS
[@4:36] - Getting help from some crates or totally starting from scratch?
[@8:08] - The team behind LibertyOS
[@10:04] - Every processor is different so you can’t write Rust for everything
[@17:27] - What can LibertyOS do at the moment?
[@20:19] - How to support writing Rust programs on a Rust-based OS?
[@27:38] - How are decisions made for LibertyOS?
[@34:07] - Cargo check
[@37:12] - More on the LibertyOS members
[@42:34] - Why LibertyOS may change their name
[@44:46] - Final words and ways to contribute to the project
Other Resources
Daniel’s Github
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Dec 24, 2021 • 1h 2min
Code Like a Pro in Rust with Brenden Matthews
Allen Wyma talks with Brenden Matthews, the author of the book Code Like a Pro 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
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Github: @rustacean-station
Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@0:41] - Brenden’s Bio
[@1:30] - Where the idea to write the book came from
[@4:32] - Pythonic, Rustacious/Idiomatic Rust and other coding style terms
[@6:25] - Writing idiomatic code
[@10:19] - Helper methods
[@12:34] - From trait
[@15:20] - Into trait
[@17:00] - Errors in Rust
[@26:59] - Other languages borrowing Rust’s ideas for memory safety and no null type
[@29:21] - Kotlin, Dart, Swift & Zig
[@30:58] - LLVM, Swift & Rust and evolution of languages
[@35:32] - Backwards compatibility in Rust
[@39:00] - Experiences and the improvements in Rust
[@42:44] - Components are added manually, but should they be installed by default?
[@48:16] - Knowing when to use libc and adding a C runtime
[@59:58] - Who Code Like a Pro in Rust is written for
Other Resources
Brenden’s Blog
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Dec 23, 2021 • 1h 27min
What's New in Rust 1.56 and 1.57
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.56 and 1.57 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!
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Github: @rustacean-station
Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@01:14] - Rust 2021 edition
[@01:16] - What is an edition?
[@05:03] - Disjoint captures in closures
Niko’s “view types” proposal
[@09:00] - IntoIterator for arrays
[@11:12] - Or patterns in macro_rules
[@13:31] - New default Cargo feature resolver
Details on the new resolver
[@15:16] - Additions to the prelude
std::prelude
FromIterator
[@19:38] - Panic macro consistency and new reserved syntax
[@20:33] - Implicit formatting captures (more on Reddit)
[@25:00] - Reserved syntax for “f-strings”
[@27:54] - Why panic! had to change
[@28:55] - Other uses for reserved syntax
[@30:15] - Warnings promoted to errors
Future incompatibility warnings
[@35:23] - cargo fix
[@36:20] - Rust 1.56
[@36:30] - Cargo.toml rust-version
Cargo book entry
[@42:54] - New bindings in binding @ pattern
[@44:27] - Stabilized APIs
[@49:27] - Changelog deep-dive
[@49:27] - impl From<[(K, V), N]> for collections
RFC for adding collection literal macros
[@53:07] - Remove P: Unpin bound on impl Future for Pin
[@55:16] - Instant backsliding protection optimization
May end up being removed!
[@58:01] - LLVM 13 upgrade
LLVM’s new pass manager
[@59:23] - Have Cargo set environment variables
[@1:00:17] - Rust 1.56.1
Security advisory
The “Trojan Source” vulnerability
Rust RFC on non-ASCII identifiers
[@1:04:52] - Rust 1.57
[@1:05:20] - Panic in const contexts
[@1:07:20] - Custom Cargo profiles
Cargo book on profiles
[@1:08:45] - Fallible allocation
Fallible collection allocation RFC
Linux Torvals on handling allocation failures
Rust features still needed by the Linux kernel
[@1:12:33] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:16:45] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:16:50] - Vec::leak no longer allocates
[@1:18:03] - Nintendo 3DS added as Tier 3 platform
[@1:19:03] - Cargo no longer passes through RUSTFLAGS
Environment variables set by Cargo
[@1:20:13] - Lots more #[must_use] in std
[@1:22:00] - File::read_to_* optimized
[@1:23:24] - Curly braces macros accept following . and ?
[@1:25:22] - Banter – Rust all the way down.
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Aerocity
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
Transcript: Eric Seppanen

Dec 11, 2021 • 57min
Refactoring to Rust with Lily Mara
Allen Wyma talks with Lily Mara, the author of the book Refactoring to Rust.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
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Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@1:26] - Lily’s Bio
[@3:33] - Her blogs helped her improve her writing
[@5:09] - How the book came to be
[@9:34] - Knowing when to add a new language to an existing project
[@12:07] - Tools for measuring memory usage
[@15:04] - Garbage collection
[@18:30] - Strongly and weakly typed languages & dynamic vs static dispatch
[@21:13] - About the book
[@25:40] - Go being treated like a C library
[@27:02] - Memory allocators
[@35:51] - When did Lily started working on the book?
[@37:44] - Writing examples (it’s hard!)
[@46:36] - How technical are the editors?
[@49:00] - The Rust community is very welcoming
[@50:14] - Publishers that are publishing Rust books
[@52:17] - Lily’s Twitch stream for Manning
[@53:07] - Lily’s advice for aspiring Rust developers
Other Resources
PyO3
Flutter Rust Bridge
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Nov 26, 2021 • 1h 5min
Game Development with Herbert Wolverson
Allen Wyma talks with Herbert Wolverson, the author of the book Hands-on Rust.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
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Email: hello@rustacean-station.org
Timestamps
[@0:57] - About Herbert and his book
[@3:01] - Explaining Rust’s traits
[@4:27] - The book is for intermediate programming
[@5:32] - Most beneficial part about using Rust over other languages
[@7:42] - Unreal Engine
[@11:13] - Unreal, Unity & Godot
[@13:44] - Bevy Engine & Amethyst Engine
[@18:31] - Zig
[@20:38] - Herbert’s Bracket-Lib engine
[@24:18] - Creating a game engine from scratch
[@34:03] - ECS (Entity Component System) & OPP (Object-Oriented Programming)
[@42:02] - Other game engines mentioned in the book
[@43:12] - Macroquad & Miniquad
[@45:39] - Amethyst
[@49:51] - RG3D
[@51:58] - Book Status & Rust Brain Teasers
[@57:44] - Pragprog Publishing
[@01:02:30] - How to contact Herbert
Other Resources
Hands-on Rust
Roguelike Tutorial
The Bracket
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Nov 19, 2021 • 53min
Error Handling in Rust with Jane Lusby
Allen Wyma talks with Jane Lusby, the Error Handling Project Group Lead, and also the Project Director of Collaboration at Rust Foundation.
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
[@00:57] - Jane’s bio
[@04:10] - Jane’s contributions to Clippy
[@08:54] - Eyre
[@15:49] - Failure & Anyhow
[@17:13] - Choosing between anyhow & eyre
[@20:05] - AnyError and ThisError
[@23:31] - Color-eyre
[@26:08] - Other crates that are also in eyre
[@28:59] - Error Handling Group
[@38:12] - Collaboration with other groups
[@46:05] - Rust 2021 & 2018 Editions
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma

Nov 12, 2021 • 1h 9min
Tokio Ecosystem with Alice Ryhl
Allen Wyma talks with Alice Ryhl, one of the maintainers of the open source project Tokio.
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
[@00:40] - Alice’s Bio
[@01:08] - Managing pull requests on GitHub
[@05:00] - Alice’s involvement in Tokio
[@08:23] - Tokio’s topics page
[@11:06] - Alice’s favorite part of contributing
[@12:55] - Changes in Tokio since Alice joined
[@16:52] - Measuring metrics
[@19:38] - Cooperative & preemptive scheduling
[@24:30] - Diesel
[@25:45] - Definition of [blocking]((https://ryhl.io/blog/async-what-is-blocking/)
[@27:37] - I/O threads
[@31:21] - What are sleeping threads?
[@33:41] - Tokio Console
[@41:14] - Pros and cons of using actors
[@47:05] - Alice’s academic background
[@49:22] - Tokio’s upcoming roadmap
[@57:33] - Replacing epoll with io_uring
[@58:56] - Axum, Tower, and Loom
[@01:01:45] - Web frameworks for Rust
[@01:05:57] - How to contact Alice
Other Resources
Rust in Android Platform
Tokio’s Discord
Tokio’s Topics Pages
Cooperative Scheduling
Tokio Metrics
Actors in Tokio
io_uring with Tokio
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
Hosts: Allen Wyma