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smol with John Nunley

May 12, 2023 01:05:06 62.5 MB Downloads: 0

Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Kan talk with John Nunley, contributor to the smol async runtime.

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Timestamps

  • [@0:00] - Introduction
  • [@1:46] - Advantage of smol
  • [@5:40] - John Nunley’s programming background
  • [@11:50] - Tauri, GTK and other GUI frameworks
  • [@16:16] - Async.io
  • [@19:28] - Writing packages and breaking up packages into smaller modules
  • [@24:21] - John’s work career
  • [@25:09] - Windows vs Linux API
  • [@29:06] - windows-rs
  • [@30:03] - Windows support with Rust
  • [@31:46] - Recent changes in smol
  • [@33:16] - Event Listener and how it works
  • [@37:26] - Handling pull requests and complaints
  • [@41:40] - smol’s integration with other runtimes
  • [@44:54] - smol vs Tokio
  • [@47:04] - Reason why smol is growing in popularity among GUI crates
  • [@49:06] - Recent developments in async
  • [@52:18] - The Async working group
  • [@58:11] - Community-based crates with suggestions and structure
  • [@1:00:22] - What to expect to come out of smol in the near future?
  • [@1:02:11] - Parting thoughts

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma