Rustacean Station

Allen Wyma talks with Tobie and Jamie Morgan, creators of SurrealDB about why they switched to 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 [@0:00] - Intro [@1:42] - What made SurrealDB switch from Go to Rust? [@4:51] - What is SurrealDB and why it was made? [@9:18] - How does SurrealDB store data? [@11:24] - SurrealDB and WebAssembly [@13:25] - SurrealDB limitations running in the browser [@14:09] - Running SurrealDB in the cloud [@15:37] - Advantage of SurrealDB over other services [@16:35] - Transparency in SurrealDB [@18:37] - Encryption in SurrealDB [@19:26] - SurrealDB licensing and open-source [@25:45] - SurrealDB services and users [@28:57] - When not to use SurrealDB? [@31:34] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Lukas Wirth, member of the rust-analyzer team. 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 [@0:00] - Introduction [@1:46] - Rust Analyzer’s source of funding and history [@10:56] - Lukas’ contribution and work in Rust Analyzer [@16:01] - What is Rust Analyzer and what does it do? [@17:35] - Rust Analyzer diagnostics and implementation [@21:23] - The importance of Rust Analyzer [@25:36] - Rust Analyzer’s limitations [@32:54] - Lessons from the left-pad library issue [@35:20] - Difficulties with dependency version duplicates [@39:53] - Installing Rust Analyzer for different code editors [@44:29] - Rust Language Server vs Rust Analyzer [@51:25] - Clippy [@56:39] - Rust’s advantage over other languages [@58:08] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Syrus Akbary, Founder and CEO at Wasmer, a WebAssembly runtime written 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 [@0:00] - What is Wasmer? [@4:50] - How Syrus got into Wasmer [@7:55] - WebAssembly vs Docker and Kubernetes [@14:30] - WebAssembly GC proposal and updates [@18:06] - Advantage of using WASM over other techniques [@20:52] - Permission system with WebAssembly [@23:30] - Why choose Wasmer? [@25:04] - Wasmer installation process [@25:56] - What makes Rust the best language to use for creating Wasmer [@28:47] - Compiling and running your Rust codes to WebAssembly [@30:48] - Updates and features that are coming out on WebAssembly [@39:36] - Rust and WebAssembly [@46:00] - Making all applications able to compile to WebAssembly [@47:01] - Using GUI with Wasmer [@50:16] - Where to get more information about Wasmer Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Josh Matthews, former Engineering Manager at Mozilla for Servo, a web browser engine written 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 [@0:00] - Josh’s history with Servo [@3:54] - Community fears around the future of Rust when Mozilla had their layoffs [@6:52] - Chrome’s Javascript engine [@10:54] - How to make web design more secure with Rust [@19:50] - How Servo is using Rust [@24:49] - Servo’s responsibility as browser engine vs a JavaScript engine [@30:14] - CSS Grid support [@35:51] - Developer tools [@39:54] - Complexity in web optimization [@42:13] - Running multiple iframes within a page [@44:21] - How Rust helped Servo [@46:32] - Funding Servo [@50:19] - Where to get updates on Servo [@50:40] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Tom Miles, CTO of AI-NC, a platform written in Rust to get manufactorability feedback for hardware designs. 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 [@0:00] - Introduction [@0:46] - What is Spin [@1:23] - AI-NC’s company history [@2:46] - What made Tom start a machine shop company [@8:17] - AI-NC’s goal to provide automation, design, and advanced manufacturing [@17:04] - Communication between designers and assembly people [@19:22] - The margin for error in manufacturing [@30:40] - What made the team switch to Rust vs other languages [@35:06] - Libraries that AI-NC uses in their services [@42:35] - Integrations with third-party chat applications [@46:03] - Hiring Rust talent [@50:23] - Teaching people Rust [@53:27] - Advice for companies that want to use Rust [@54:42] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Alexander Lopatin, creator of Cargo Limit, a cargo plugin that will show errors in your Rust code before any warnings. 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 [@0:00] - Alexander’s programming background [@3:17] - What made Alexander interested in the Rust [@4:43] - What is Cargo Limit? [@9:19] - Cargo Limit’s features [@11:20] - Improvements that Alexander wants to make in Cargo Limit [@12:52] - Cargo extensions and installation [@13:31] - Alexander’s process for creating Cargo extensions and plugins [@16:00] - Using Neovim and integrating with Rust Analyzer [@18:57] - Upcoming upgrades and features of Cargo Limit [@24:46] - How to get in touch with Alexander and learn more [@25:28] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Antonio Scandurra, co-creator of Zed, a high performance code editor written 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 [@0:00] - Introduction [@2:56] - The story behind Zed [@6:24] - Zed’s performance and features powered by Rust [@12:01] - How Zed balances speed vs features [@16:00] - What is the most important thing an editor has to have? [@18:01] - Zed customization and the ability to add plugins [@23:13] - Zed’s built-in contacts panel for team collaboration [@26:54] - Third-party services that Zed uses [@31:28] - Zed’s tab support [@32:39] - Zed’s theme customization and system [@34:31] - Top crates that power Zed [@36:05] - Zed’s plans to support other platforms [@37:56] - Porting Rust vs porting other languages [@42:09] - Zed’s pricing plans [@43:15] - Zed’s possible plan for open-sourcing parts of the editor [@44:10] - Check out more information about Zed and sign up to join the waitlist [@44:29] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Joshua Nelson, team lead for the Bootstrap team for Rust, and formally on the Rustdoc team 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 [@0:00] - Introduction [@1:07] - Different groups and teams in the Rust community [@8:31] - Memory safety and security issues [@10:26] - Rust documentation [@12:13] - Joshua’s contribution to Rust’s documentation [@14:57] - How did Joshua get involved with Rust [@18:17] - Documentation and prioritizing features [@23:19] - Rust team and governance issues [@34:17] - Maintaining the code [@37:45] - Joshua’s new team and career [@42:20] - Cargo and the bootstrap tool [@46:08] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Serge Barral about Asynchronix, a event simulation framework written 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 [@0:00] - What is Asynchronix? [@2:21] - Writing Rust documentation [@4:28] - Serge’s career & background [@8:51] - How does the Asynchronix simulator work? [@11:40] - The importance of writing the library in Rust [@16:51] - Time-based simulation and practical use cases [@26:59] - Building the custom executor [@30:48] - How long did it take to build Asynchronix? [@34:10] - Asynchronix’s vision to improve modern systems development [@40:15] - Getting in touch to learn more about Asynchronix [@41:43] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with the Lodestone team, who is working a tool to create private Minecraft servers in a safe and convenient way 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 [@0:00] - Introduction [@2:51] - How did the Lodestone team discover Rust? [@8:26] - Motivation for writing the Lodestone project [@9:28] - Why choose Rust [@12:23] - Go vs Rust [@13:53] - Experience using Tauri [@16:05] - Lodestone’s front-end work [@19:18] - Setting up and using Lodestone [@21:46] - Issues and challenges the team is currently working on [@25:27] - The advantage of using Rust [@27:21] - Crates used in the project [@29:51] - How Actors work [@34:56] - Lodestone’s scripting system [@39:29] - Lodestone’s security and permission system [@45:37] - How to reach out to the Lodestone team [@46:19] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma