Come journey with us into the weird, wonderful, and wily world of Rust.
Isograph with Robert Balicki
Allen Wyma talks with Robert Balicki about Isograph, a framework powered by Rust to speed up your React app development. 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 [@10:48] - GraphQL basics [@21:20] - The role of Rust within the project [@32:24] - Isograph installation [@37:16] - Isograph development [@45:46] - Upcoming features [@01:00:01] - Closing discussion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
relase-plz with Marco Ieni
Allen Wyma talks with Marco Ieni about release-plz, a CLI-based tool that helps you to release your Rust crates by generating changelogs and bumping the version of your crates. 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 [@00:00] - Meet Marco Ieni, software engineer at Prisma, creator of release-plz [@01:17] - Release-plz creation & features [@08:50] - Conventional commit standard [@17:41] - Potential upcoming features [@21:25] - Gitea, Gitlab, Github integration [@28:14] - Release-plz development [@31:24] - Windows support [@36:22] - Message from Marco [@37:07] - Marco’s Rust podcast RustShip Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Pavex with Luca Palmieri
Allen Wyma talks with Luca Palmieri about pavex, a new API-focused web framework 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 ⁃ [@00:00] - Meet Luca Palmieri, software engineer, author of Zero To Production In Rust, open source maintainer & contributor ⁃ [@02:04] - Luca’s working experience, discussing time at AWS and moving to Mainmatter ⁃ [@09:01] - Pavex: a Rust framework for professionals ⁃ [@22:57] - Rustdoc JSON & the f macro ⁃ [@37:19] - Lessons from maintaining open-source projects like rocket.rs ⁃ [@52:17] - Pavex’s closed beta stage ⁃ [@56:43] - Plans for production readiness ⁃ [@01:10:43] - Potential pricing models ⁃ [@01:12:39] - Closing discussion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Launching RustRover: JetBrains' Investment in Rust
Vitaly Bragilevsky, Developer Advocate at JetBrains and author of Haskell in depth, sits down with Luca Palmieri. Vitaly explains what led JetBrains to launch a Rust-specific product, RustRover. He covers, in particular, why it is a good time to invest further in Rust, touching as well on the state of the Rust ecosystem. Luca and Vitaly also touch on the status quo of Rust developer tooling, including debuggers, profilers (or the lack thereof!), and framework-specific extensions. 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 [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@01:07] - Becoming a Developer Advocate for Rust at JetBrains [@04:34] - Vitaly’s transition from Haskell to Rust Haskell in depth [@08:13] - Introducing JetBrains’ RustRover [@18:56] - Usage and status quo of Rust developer tooling [@25:12] - Vitaly’s outlook on Rust’s future [@31:47] - New use cases for Rust adoption [@35:07] - Compiler and IDE suggestions [@38:08] - JetBrains’ role and future as a Rust tooling provider [@39:59] - Reasoning behind Rust’s increasing popularity [@46:18] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Luca Palmieri
cargo-semver-checks with Predrag Gruevski
Allen Wyma talks with Predrag Gruevski about cargo-semver-checks, a linter that checks your crate’s API for any semver violations. 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 [@00:00] - Meet Predrag Gruevski - creator & maintainer of cargo-semver-checks [@00:35] - Exploring cargo-semver-checks, a linter for preventing breaking changes and ensuring semantic versioning [@05:00] - What is Semantic versioning (semver) [@08:17] - Determining major version bumps [@10:48] - Background of the project [@18:25] - Functionality, use cases, and project details of cargo-semver-checks [@38:51] - Future plans and upcoming features [@47:28] - Closing discussion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Hyper 1.0 with Sean McArthur
Allen Wyma talks with Sean McArthur about the 1.0 release of Hyper, the well-known Rust HTTP library. 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 [@00:00] - Meet open-source engineer Sean McArthur [@01:20] - Reasons for the 9-year journey to release hyper 1.0 [@05:34] - Addressing async fragmentation [@07:38] - Sean’s transition to freelance maintenance [@10:12] - Freelancing and finding clients while working on open source [@16:56] - Hyper’s maturity and future plans [@22:16] - Stages of hyper’s development, releases, and post-release issues. [@36:14] - Closing discussion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Asynchronous Programming in Rust with Carl Fredrik Samson
Allen Wyma talks with Carl Fredrik Samson about his book Asynchronous Programming in Rust, a deep dive into asynchronous programming 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 [@00:00] - Meet Carl Fredrik Samson, author of Asynchronous Programming in Rust [@04:26] - Making the deal with Packt (publishing company) [@05:12] - Runtime with green threads [@07:50] - Understanding the concept of asynchronous programming [@03:17] - The benefits and purpose of using asynchronous programming [@28:35] - Comparing green threads and fibers in Rust [@35:29] - Importance of learning async programming [@41:43] - Insights into the book’s creation process, including research and writing efforts [@43:13] - Target audience and prerequisites for the book [@45:09] - Book details [@48:02] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Asciinema with Marcin Kulik
Allen Wyma talks with Marcin Kulik about his work on asciinema, a service that allows people to record their terminal windows to share with others, that has the custom asciinema player 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 [@00:00] - Introduction [@01:56] - Overview of Asciinema: A suite of tools for recording, replaying, and sharing terminal sessions [@09:11] - More about Marcin Kulik, the creator of Asciinema, and his background [@10:08] - Inspiration behind the creation of Asciinema [@18:52] - Marcin’s journey into Rust [@23:15] - Balancing paid development and consulting services for Asciinema [@24:36] - Progress on the Rust rewrite [@28:37] - AGG (Asciinema GIF generator) [@34:44] - Maintaining multiple languages and the role of Rust [@40:17] - Future plans for Asciinema and potential features [@47:23] - Closing discussion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Unlocking Rust's power through mentorship and knowledge spreading, with Tim McNamara
Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action and founder at Accelerant, sits down with Marco Otte-Witte. Tim discusses how Rust, despite common perceptions, is relatively easy to learn and how the compiler empowers engineers to avoid common mistakes. The conversation also emphasizes Rust’s growing adoption in companies, its role in addressing long-term maintainability challenges, and its potential to significantly reduce software energy consumption, while highlighting the importance of mentorship to ensure successful integration across organizations. 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 [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:34] - Start of the interview [@01:27] - Tim’s role at AWS [@03:57] - Tim’s reasons for learning Rust [@04:57] - Rust in Action [@06:59] - How hard is it to learn Rust? [@13:49] - Reasons companies are holding back from adopting Rust [@23:51] - Rust’s type system and maintainability [@36:30] - Dependencies in Rust [@41:01] - Energy savings with Rust [@48:09] - Tim’s approach to pitching Rust [@54:21] - Overcoming concerns around Rust adoption [@55:36] - Recruitment strategy for Rust [@57:13] - Knowledge spreading [@01:02:41] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Marco Otto-Witte
Prossimo with Josh Aas
Allen Wyma talks with Josh Aas about his work on Prossimo, an Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) project that is focusing on moving critical software used on the Internet to a memory safe language, such as 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 [@00:00] - Meet Josh Aas - Executive Director at ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), a non-profit dedicated to building a more secure and privacy-respecting digital infrastructure. [@01:32] - Let’s Encrypt Project - a nonprofit Certificate Authority providing TLS certificates to 363 million websites. [@06:53] - Divvi Up project - a privacy-respecting system for aggregate statistics. [@09:48] - Prossimo - ensuring memory safety for the internet’s most critical infrastructure. [@15:24] - Discussion about Curl and Rust. [@19:06] - The benefits of rewriting software, particularly transitioning from C to Rust for improved memory safety. [@34:19] - The ISRG’s ambition to make the Linux kernel memory-safe with Rust. [@37:27] - Can Zig potentially be a competitor to Rust? [@39:41] - Closing thoughts. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Polars with Ritchie Vink
Allen Wyma talks with Ritchie Vink about his work on Polars, a DataFrame library 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 [@00:00] - Meet Ritchie Vink - Creator of Polars [@02:00] - What is a DataFrame? [@05:19] - Arrow [@07:26] - NumPy [@11:31] - Polars vs Pandas [@17:32] - Using Polars in app development [@25:24] - Python and Rust docs [@31:49] - Polars 1.0 release [@35:21] - What keeps Ritchie working on Polars [@37:27] - Growing Polars without bloat [@39:57] - Closing discussions Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Exploring Rust's impact on efficiency and cost-savings, with Stefan Baumgartner
Stefan Baumgartner, Senior Product Architect at Dynatrace, discusses with Marco Otte-Witte how Rust enables developers to write performant and reliable software that’s efficient at a level that leads to substantial cost savings. Stefan shares his firsthand experience with Rust, highlighting the ecosystem’s ability when it comes to delivering functioning prototypes quickly. He also discusses the importance of understanding memory management and low-level concepts in programming and how teaching Rust empowers developers to write efficient and reliable software. 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 [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:34] - Start of the interview [@02:06] - Pitching Rust and criteria for adoption [@03:35] - What is Dynatrace [@06:15] - Stability with Rust [@09:59] - Benefits of Rust [@13:45] - Learning and teaching Rust [@19:21] - Comparing Rust’s teachability to other languages [@24:39] - The role of the compiler in Rust programming [@26:17] - Stefan’s approach to teaching Rust [@29:50] - Onboarding at Dynatrace [@34:14] - Performance versus stability [@37:12] - Rust’s highlights [@39:41] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Marco Otto-Witte
Recruiting in Rust with Cedric Sellman
Allen Wyma talks with Cedric Sellmann about his experience with recuiting Rust engineers. 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 [@00:00] - Guest introduction: Cedric Sellmann - Rust Recruitment Specialist, previous Java recruiter. [@07:18] - Rust’s limited mainstream adoption and challenges in verifying Rust qualifications. [@17:28] - Job hunting tips for Rust developers. [@29:06] - Current Rust job market compared to previous years. [@32:54] - The effectiveness of referrals for Rust developer job opportunities. [@35:30] - Industries hiring Rust developers: crypto, gaming, and more! [@50:31] - Advice for aspiring Rust developers. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Rust Digger with Gabor Szabo
Allen Wyma talks with Gabor Szabo about his website Rust Digger which collects data about 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 [@00:00] - What is Rust Digger, and why is it useful? [@16:36] - Handling crates without repository links (e.g., the Fastly crate) [@22:27] - Handling crates without an owner. [@30:34] - What’s next for Rust Digger, including name squatting, malware, and dependency management. [@38:57] - What to expect in the coming months. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Kraken's migration to Rust microservices, with Rob Ede
Rob Ede, lead maintainer of actix-web, explains to Marco Otto-Witte how (and why) Kraken chose to migrate their microservices to Rust. They also discuss Rust’s web development ecosystem at large, with a particular focus on actix-web: Rob shares his view on how improvements in the language and framework space will eventually lead to a future where web development in Rust can be as approachable as web development in Javascript. 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 [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:36] - Start of the interview [@01:26] - What is actix-web? [@06:34] - Kraken’s migration from Java to Rust [@10:09] - Benefits of Rust adoption at Kraken [@12:48] - Rust vs Java [@15:42] - Future improvements for actix-web [@21:15] - Do Rust users become contributors? [@24:08] - The future of Rust and actix-web [@30:46] - Recommendations for adopting Rust [@31:37] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Marco Otto-Witte