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Allen Wyma talks with Albert Larsan about his work on bootstrapping the Rust compiler. 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 to Bootstrap [@1:57] - Building the standard library and compiler. [@5:34] - The biggest challenges when bootstrapping rustc (the Rust compiler) [@11:26] - Why use Python to start the bootstrapping process? [@13:08] - Running tests as part of the Rust API to ensure that each component is well-tested. [@15:07] - Running tests on Linux, MacOS, and Windows [@18:54] - Features that the Rust bootstrap team has been working on. [@20:50] - Plans to run Clippy and fix issues. [@23:41] - Stage redesign, verification, reproducibility, and different optimizations implemented in the compiler. [@27:28] - Albert’s advice on the process of bootstrapping Rust. [@31:05] - The importance of documentation [@31:49] - Parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
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Fish Folk with Erlend Sogge Heggen
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Daily with Kwindla Hultman Kramer
Allen Wyma talks with Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Founder and CEO of Daily, and João Neves, Staff Engineer at Daily. Daily provides SDKs for building video applications on top of the WebRTC standard 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 [@00:00] - Introduction to Daily [@05:00] - WebRTC Implementation and sharing across different platform [@10:31] - The challenges of integrating C++ with WebRTC [@19:16] - Signaling in WebRTC - Session setup and initial configuration [@22:45] - Challenges in implementing WebRTC standards [@27:21] - Handling and working around platform and browser differences when implementing WebRTC [@30:51] - Daily’s mono repo approach for code sharing [@33:30] - The process of building and releasing code in relation to different platforms and dependencies [@35:57] - Integrating Rust, C, Objective C, and Swift for iOS development [@37:20] - Daily’s automated testing processes [@42:24] - Daily’s network simulation layer in their testing process [@44:00] - The use of Rust in implementing network simulation for testing purposes [@49:15] - Using WebAssembly alongside native code in an application, and the potential obstacles to consider [@50:52] - Crates that are being used by Daily [@52:44] - What would differentiate Daily compared to other solutions? [@55:48] - Daily vs Zoom [@56:38] - Other open-source projects from Daily [@1:01:20] - Parting thoughts and how to get in touch with Daily Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Slint 1.0 with Tobias Hunger
Allen Wyma talks with Tobias Hunger, developer on Slint. Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display. Slint has just made a 1.0 release. 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 [@04:02] - Slint updates and progress from the previous interview [@06:15] - Upgrades that came along releasing of Slint 1.0 [@11:12] - Bugs fixed in Slint 1.0 [@12:43] - Stability, improved tooling and other key features in the Slint upgrade [@15:34] - Multi-window support [@18:26] - Screen reader accessibility and keyboard shortcut in Slint [@22:04] - Raspberry Pi Pico and Zero 2 W [@24:21] - Rust support, line buffering and graphics acceleration [@26:10] - Other UIs that are out in the Rust space [@27:17] - Handling bugs and feature reports [@29:10] - Slint documentation [@34:02] - Patch files [@37:16] - Plans for the 1.1 release [@38:51] - Interesting ways users used Slint API [@40:30] - Slint users and Rust community feedback [@43:35] - Requiring that users have a Rust compiler installed [@46:31] - Programming with Rust vs C, C++ [@48:33] - Tobias’ great experience with the Rust community Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma
Shuttle Launchpad with Stefan Baumgartner
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CoderDojo and Rust Linz with Rainer Stropek
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