Rustacean Station

Rustacean Station

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Launching RustRover: JetBrains' Investment in Rust
04-04-2024
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
Unlocking Rust's power through mentorship and knowledge spreading, with Tim McNamara
28-01-2024
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 Otte-Witte
Prossimo with Josh Aas
12-01-2024
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
Exploring Rust's impact on efficiency and cost-savings, with Stefan Baumgartner
06-12-2023
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 Otte-Witte
What's New in Rust 1.70 and 1.71
30-09-2023
What's New in Rust 1.70 and 1.71
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.70 and 1.71 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! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:20] - Rust 1.70 [@01:22] - Cargo’s sparse protocol by default [@03:47] - OnceCell and OnceLock [@10:56] - IsTerminal [@12:49] - Named debug levels [@14:57] - Enforced stability in the test CLI [@16:45] - Stabilized APIs Add Default impls for iterators Arc::into_inner Option::is_some_and SocketAddrExt [@24:30] - Changelog deep-dive [@24:42] - Use SipHash-1-3 instead of 2-4 [@26:06] - Alignment debug checks for pointer derefs [@27:04] - Relaxed ordering for asm! operands [@27:53] - -Zgitoxide [@28:21] - -Zdirect-minimal-versions [@29:16] - Rust 1.71.0 [@29:25] - C-unwind ABI RFC Unwinding by default? [@36:59] - Debugger visualization attributes Detailed documentation [@37:36] - raw-dylib linking Windows linking docs What is ordinal linking [@38:15] - Upgrade to musl 1.2 [@39:42] - Const-initialized thread locals [@41:14] - Changelog deep-dive [@41:40] - Uplift drop_ref clippy lints [@42:39] - Allow some recursive panics [@43:57] - Optimize cargo under rustup [@45:38] - Avoid excessive registry lookups [@46:28] - Include rust-version in publish [@47:02] - Document more semver rules Adding #[non_exhausting] Making an fn safe MSRV is a minor bump Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Aerocity Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
What's New in Rust 1.68 and 1.69
19-09-2023
What's New in Rust 1.68 and 1.69
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.68 and 1.69 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! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:30] - Rust 1.68 [@01:32] - Cargo’s sparse protocol [@09:28] - Local Pin construction Implementation comments A fun hack [@13:56] - Default alloc error handler Small allocs in panic handler probably ok [@18:24] - Stabilized APIs impl From for f64 [@19:06] - Changelog deep-dive [@19:15] - Stabilize UEFI extern [@20:07] - cargo build --verbose [@20:50] - home is a cargo crate [@21:12] - Cargo.lock for workspace publish [@21:35] - Make Context !Send and !Sync [@24:24] - Rust 1.68.1 [@25:11] - Rust 1.68.2 GitHub announcement [@26:29] - Rust 1.69.0 [@28:17] - Nice PR#42069 [@29:50] - More cargo fix [@31:17] - No more debug info for build scripts Nicholas Nethercote’s blog [@34:48] - Stabilized APIs CStr::from_bytes_until_nul [@37:24] - Changelog deep-dive [@37:28] - Unaligned references is a hard error now [@38:28] - Deriving on packed structs More detailed description [@44:51] - Suggest cargo add [@45:36] - Search for macros with ! [@46:10] - Compatibility notes [@47:18] - Rust 0.1 release notes Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Aerocity Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel