Rustacean Station

Allen Wyma talks with Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos, creators of Hopp, a tool that enables remote pair programming sessions. Hopp is built with Tauri and Rust, and is open source. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos [@3:12] - The problem with existing tools: high latency and poor quality [@7:28] - Why Tauri was chosen (and its limitations) [@10:28] - Moving from WebKit to a custom Rust WebRTC implementation [@14:34] - How Hopp handles ultra-low latency screen sharing [@22:50] - Technical deep dive: Bypassing browser limitations on macOS [@31:18] - Roadmap: Migrating fully to Rust and future integrations [@34:25] - Linux support challenges and distribution [@41:03] - Using iced for Rust-based UI rendering [@42:14] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the Rust 2024 Edition. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@03:05] - RPIT lifetime capture rules [@08:00] - let chains in if and while if let temporary scope Mara’s post on “super let” Tail expression temporary scope [@19:15] - Match ergonomics reservations [@24:49] - Unsafe extern blocks [@29:15] - Unsafe attributes [@32:03] - unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn warning [@34:51] - Disallow references to static mut [@39:20] - Never type fallback change [@43:33] - Macro Fragment Specifiers [@47:47] - gen keyword [@49:36] - Changes to the prelude [@50:32] - Add IntoIterator for Box [@56:03] - <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2024/newly-unsafe-function

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.85 through 1.88 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:11] - Rust 1.85 [@02:05] - async closures RFC 3668 Stabilization report [@07:45] - Hiding trait implementations from diagnostics [@09:43] - FromIterator and Extend for tuples [@12:10] - Updates to std::env::home_dir() Deprecation discussion Deprecation PR Originally abandoned fix Undeprecation [@15:19] - Stabilized APIs [@15:30] - number::midpoint [@16:18] - Waker::noop [@17:49] - ptr::fn_addr_eq [@20:10] - Changelog deep-dive [@20:10] - De-duplicate and improve definition of c_char [@22:56] - More constification [@23:51] - <a href="https://b

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.88 through 1.90 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:26] - Rust 1.88 [@00:26] - Let chains The if let temporary scope [@09:09] - Naked functions [@11:55] - Boolean configuration [@14:15] - Cargo automatic cache cleaning [@17:52] - Stabilized APIs [@17:52] - hint::select_unpredictable [@21:16] - ::as_chunks [@22:25] - Default for *const T [@23:13] - HashMap::extract_if [@23:43] - More metadata from Span [@24:48] - Changelog deep-dive [@24:48] - De-stabilize #[bench] [@26:55] - --no-capture [@28:31] - Rust 1.89 [@28:40] - <a href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/Rust-1.89.0/#explicitly-inferred-arg

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.81 through 1.84 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2025-10-26, which you can still watch. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:58] - Rust 1.81 [@02:05] - core::error::Error Tracking issue for generic member access build-std Rust project goal [@08:27] - New sort implementations PR implementing the change Repo with the research [@10:49] - #[expect(lint)] [@14:37] - Lint reasons [@16:18] - Stabilized APIs [@16:34] - Duration::abs_diff [@17:25] - hint::assert_unchecked [@22:36] - fs::exists [@25:37] - Compatibility notes [@20:40] - Split panic hook and panic handler arguments [@23:00] - <a href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09

Allen Wyma talks with Jonathan Kelley, creator of Dioxus, a framework for building web, mobile, and desktop apps with a single Rust codebase. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Jonathan Kelley, Creator of Dioxus [@01:55] - The Origin & Core Technology of Dioxus [@24:45] - Hot Reloading for a Faster Workflow [@30:20] - The Road to a Stable 1.0 Release [@36:36] - The Future Vision: Full-Stack, Native APIs, and Beyond [@42:55] - Collaboration within the Rust UI Ecosystem Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems [@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint [@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase [@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite [@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods [@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites [@40:42] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

In this episode, host Gábor Szabó talks to Eli Shalom, Eureka Labs’ Co-Founder and CTO, and Senior Software Engineer Igal Tabachnik about how Rust is powering infrastructure at Eureka Labs - a blockchain company operating in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. Eureka Labs’ work focuses on advancing the logic of block construction to support more efficient execution and expand the functionality that can be packed into each block’s limited timeframe. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work. [@1:14] - Eli Shalom Co-Founder and CTO of Eureka Labs. [@2:20] - Igal Tabachnik Senior Software Engineer. Scala [@4:00] - About Eureka Labs and the “block builder”. Blockchain Ethereum Networks [@7:10] - What is blockchain? What is block building? Smart contract Smart contracts on Ethereum NP-Hard problem [@15:00] - Why Rust? reth [@25:45] - Ethereum implementation and deployment Ethereum specs and standards EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposals [@35:06] - How did you get started with Rust? Scala Haskell<

Allen Wyma talks with DongYoon Kang aka kdy, creator of SWC, a Rust-based platform for creating fast developer tools. It’s used in existing projects such as Next.js, Parcel, and Deno. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet DongYoon Kang, creator of SWC, the Rust-based platform for the Web [@1:54] - SWC creation & background [@5:00] - Adoption by Deno, Next.js, and others [@8:45] - Learning Rust and building SWC [@11:14] - Community contributions and team structure [@14:48] - Performance improvements with Chili [@17:57] - SWC modules and supported languages [@20:28] - Exploring Dart support [@21:37] - Future plans for SWC Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

With AccessKit, Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat took on the ambitious task of abstracting over the accessibility APIs of several target OS’ to offer toolkit providers one unified way to make their UIs accessible across platforms. This interview was recorded live at RustWeek 2025 with your host Luuk van der Duim. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@1:11] - Introducing Matt and Arnold. [@1:45] - “What are you working on?” [@2:00] - “What does it offer?” [@2:28] - “Who would use AccessKit?” [@2:51] - AccessKit bindings in languages besides Rust. [@3:14] - Unifying accessibility protocols. [@4:47] - AccessKit’s API. [@6:58] - AccessKit tree concepts. [@8:47] - When Arnold got involved. [@9:08] - 6000 lines of code to find Matt. [@12:56] - Matt’s history with Windows and Microsoft. [@14:00] - How Quorum relates to AccessKit, Quorum [@15:52] - Challenges Quorum UI development faced. [@18:12] - Arnold and Matt on the necessity for back-end testing, Android, iOS - Linux. [@21:45] - On Newton and its Chromium relation. Newton [@27:55] - Newton on other compositers. [@29:20] - Wayland protocol purists versus Gnome D-Bus frictions. “Next-generation accessibility architecture” document [@31:03] - Where can people find Arnold? Arnold on GitHub as ‘DataTriny’ Arnold Loubriat on LinkedIn DataTriny on Mastodon</

Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work. [@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion. Talpiot program Wiz, About Wiz [@3:19] - When did you start using Rust? [@3:58] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be? Polars Apache Data Fusion [@5:43] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat. [@6:22] - Have you considered other languages? [@7:02] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with? [@8:23] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub? [@9:22] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion? [@12:13] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties? [@13:23] - What do you mainly do with Rust? Scala Apache Spark Python Ray JNI [@14:38] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use? [@15:18] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job? [@17:44] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using? [@18:41] - How easy for you to recruit developers? [@20:56] - What are r

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.79 and 1.80 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:02] - Rust 1.79 [@01:02] - Inline const expressions [@08:33] - Bounds in associated type position [@14:11] - Extending automatic temporary lifetime extension Mara’s blog post on temporary lifetimes [@21:55] - Frame pointers enabled in standard library builds Does omitting the frame pointer really affect performance? [@25:37] - Stabilized APIs [@25:37] - {integer}::unchecked_add [@27:39] - ::len [@29:21] - ::utf8_chunks [@31:21] - CStr::count_bytes [@32:41] - num::NonZero [@36:30] - io::Error::downcast [@36:50] - <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/path/fn.absolu

Allen Wyma talks with Howard Zuo, CEO at Dataland, a software company that builds AI agents for customer support teams, 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Introduction to Howard Zuo and Dataland [@2:21] - Supported data sources and plugins [@5:36] - Challenges with data diversity [@9:12] - Focus on customer support teams [@13:02] - Choosing Rust for performance and safety [@18:39] - Comparing Rust to Go [@24:10] - Learning async and debugging [@30:28] - Rust’s ecosystem for data processing [@48:32] - Rust and WebAssembly for UI performance [@57:14] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with WindSoilder, a contributor to Nushell, a shell that treats data as structured tables. WindSoilder shares his journey into programming, his work on Nushell, and how Rust has shaped his development experience. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet WindSoilder: Python developer and Rust enthusiast [@04:15] - Discovering Rust and starting with Nushell [@09:30] - Structured data pipelines in Nushell [@15:20] - Using Nushell for CSV, JSON, and HTTP tasks [@20:45] - Integrating Nushell with external commands and plugins [@27:35] - From contributor to core team member [@33:10] - Learning Rust through Nushell: Challenges and rewards [@38:50] - Upcoming features and improvements in Nushell [@44:25] - Advice for new contributors and Rust beginners [@47:40] - Final thoughts and community resources Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Pete Membrey, Chief Research Officer at Kape Technologies. Pete is a software engineer with a passion for bringing technology to better the world. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Peter Memery, Chief Research Officer at ExpressVPN [@02:21] - Peter’s programming journey and transition to ExpressVPN [@11:15] - Building Lightway: From C to Rust [@24:10] - Why Rust is ideal for high-performance, secure systems [@35:48] - How ExpressVPN collaborates and scales with Rust [@42:00] - Advice for Rust beginners and high-performance programming [@48:38] - ExpressVPN’s contributions to open source and RUSTAsia 2025 [@54:48] - Why Rust is “the way forward” for the industry Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with Guillaume Gomez, Principal Engineer at Huawei. Guillaume is an IT engineer who is a frequent contributor and reviewer of the Rust language and also participates in other opensource projects such as Servo. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet Guillaume: how he got into Rust and his early contributions [11:09] - Exploring async in Rust [18:09] - GTK and other UI frameworks [28:53] - Discussing GCC’s Rust backend [43:39] - Guillaume’s recent work [46:46] - Concluding discussion Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan

Allen Wyma talks with [Vitaly Bragilevsky](https://bravit.pro/), developer advocatge at [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/). [RustRover](https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/) is an IDE for Rust that is created by JetBrains that is free for non-commercial use. ## 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](https://twitter.com/rustaceanfm) - Discord: [Rustacean Station](https://discord.gg/cHc3Gyc) - Github: [@rustacean-station](https://github.com/rustacean-station/) - Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) ## Timestamps - [@00:00] - Meet Vitaly Bragilevsky, Developer Advocate at JetBrains - [@12:42] - What JetBrains does in Rust and their IDE products - [@18:05] - Which IDE to use for Rust developers - [@24:25] - Open source vs. commercial products at JetBrains - [@37:45] - Any upcoming features for RustRover - [@43:36] - Pricing and free use cases - [@49:17] - Other programs at JetBrains ## Other links - [RUSTAsia Conf 2025](https://www.rustasiaconf.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=rustacean-station&utm_campaign=2025-02-17-vitaly-bragilevsky) ## Credits Intro Theme: [Aerocity](https://twitter.com/AerocityMusic) Audio Editing: [Plangora](https://twitter.com/plangora) Hosting Infrastructure: [Jon Gjengset](https://twitter.com/jonhoo/) Show Notes: [Plangora](https://twitter.com/plangora) Hosts: [Allen Wyma](https://twitter.com/allenwyma)

Allen Wyma talks with Vitaly Bragilevsky, developer advocatge at JetBrains. RustRover is an IDE for Rust that is created by JetBrains that is free for non-commercial use. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Vitaly Bragilevsky, Developer Advocate at JetBrains [@12:42] - What JetBrains does in Rust and their IDE products [@18:05] - Which IDE to use for Rust developers [@24:25] - Open source vs. commercial products at JetBrains [@37:45] - Any upcoming features for RustRover [@43:36] - Pricing and free use cases [@49:17] - Other programs at JetBrains Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Matthias Endler, the creator of lychee, a stream-based link checker written in Rust that finds broken hyperlinks and mail addresses inside of HTML and Markdown documents as well as websites. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Matthias: Rust consultant and creator of lychee [@01:55] - Protocol support, valid links, and lychee features [@14:51] - What inspired the creation of lychee [@19:25] - Supporting open-source projects and advice for creators starting their own [@32:17] - Staying on top of dependencies: why upgrading matters [@47:45] - New features being added to lychee Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Brenden Matthews, the author of the book Idiomatic 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Brenden Matthews, author of Idiomatic Rust [@02:52] - Writing idiomatic Rust and the evolution of the book [@06:47] - Design patterns, idioms, and Rust coding practices [@12:36] - Structuring idiomatic Rust code [@33:57] - Advanced Rust features: pattern matching and traits [@42:51] - Coroutines, generators, and learning Rust idioms Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Lars Bergstrom, Director of Engineering at Google, about Google’s use of Rust within Android. Android is Google’s main mobile operating system deployed to over 3 billion devices around the world. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Lars Bergstrom [@03:06] - Updates on Android devices [@06:49] - Rust usage at Google and in Android development [@10:26] - Zig as a security-focused alternative [@22:52] - Native code development on Android [@24:56] - Comparing Rust and Go [@27:26] - Rust as an app development language [@32:12] - LLVM vs GCC [@40:15] - Concluding discussion Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Daniel Thompson-Yvetot, co-founder of Tauri about Tauri’s 2.0 release. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms using a variety of front-end frameworks. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:33] - Daniel’s introduction to Tauri [@10:12] - Making Tauri small and secure [@18:38] - Multiplatform testing [@28:26] - CrabNebula & its connection to Tauri [@35:31] - Running Tauri [@42:57] - Tauri 2.0 status Other Resources Tauri’s Github Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Pete LeVasseur about Eclipse uProtocol. uProtocol is a library to make services within automobiles to easily communicate with each other, no matter where they are in the vehicle. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Pete LeVasseur, maintainer of Eclipse uProtocol, a software-defined communications framework [@15:34] - Journey to uProtocol [@22:19] - Understanding uProtocol [@43:25] - Rust adoption in the project and the automotive industry [@48:03] - Announcements & concluding discussion Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Pete’s Blog Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.76, 1.77, and 1.78 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2024-05-18, which you can still watch. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:34] - Rust 1.76 [@01:18] - ABI compatibility updates The updated ABI section An interesting article on ABIs in Swift vs Rust [@08:53] - Type names from references type_name type_name_of_val [@10:35] - Stabilized APIs [@10:56] - Result::inspect [@13:53] - Arc::unwrap_or_clone [@15:25] - std::hash::DefaultHasher [@18:01] - ptr::addr_eq [@21:30] - Changelog deep-dive [@21:33] - Resize/hide rustdoc bars [@22:40] - Rust 1.77 [@22:51] - C-strin

Allen Wyma talks with Stephen Blum about PubNub. PubNub is a real-time communication platform and infrastructure-as-a-service company that is integrating Rust into their stack. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Stephen Blum, CTO & Co-founder of PubNub [@06:43] - Implementing Rust in PubNub’s infrastructure [@15:19] - Rust rewrite insights [@16:41] - PubNub’s hiring process [@19:35] - Discussing concurrency [@22:07] - Pros and cons of full vs partial Rust rewrites [@30:39] - Closing discussion Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.74 and 1.75 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2024-05-18, which you can still watch. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:13] - Rust 1.74 [@00:21] - Lint configuration through Cargo [@07:42] - Cargo registry authentication Cargo documentation [@11:02] - Projections into opaque return types [@14:23] - Stabilized APIs [@14:23] - io::Error::other [@15:38] - Saturating wrapper type [@18:43] - const transmute_copy [@18:03] - Compatibility notes [@20:51] - Changelog deep-dive [@20:51] - --keep-going [@22:42] - Cargo -p partial versions [@24:21] - Warning boxes in rustdoc [@26:02] - Generic parameters in rustdoc search [@29:08] - <code

Allen Wyma talks with Andrew Lamb about InfluxDB’s rewrite. InfluxDB is an open-source time series database. As a Staff Engineer at InfluxData, he works on InfluxDB 3.0, a new time series database written in Rust, focusing on query processing and the Apache Arrow DataFusion and Apache Arrow ecosystems. In that capacity, he is a member and past chair of the Apache Arrow PMC and actively contributes to Apache Arrow DataFusion and the Apache Rust implementation query engine. Andrew was a professional C/C++ programmer for 10 years before switching to Rust. His experience ranges from startups to large multinational corporations and distributed open source projects, and has paid leadership dues as an architect and manager/VP. He holds an SB and MEng from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:52] - Meet Andrew Lamb, Staff Engineer at InfluxData, working on InfluxDB IOx [@2:57] - Transitioning from C++ to Rust: Andrew’s story [@11:24] - InfluxDB rewrite and its use cases [@22:13] - Compatibility of InfluxDB [@26:58] - Downsides of using Rust and other languages [@32:40] - Plans for the 3.0 alpha/beta release and different versions [@34:54] - Unique use of the async runtime Tokio [@55:28] - Rust as a tool for recruitment [@58:16] - Closing discussion Other links Andrew’s X Account Using Rustlang’s Async Tokio Runtime for CPU-Bound Tasks Using the FDAP Architecture to build InfluxDB 3.0 RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora

Benno van der Berg, Principal Software Engineer at Fiberplane, sits down with Luca Palmieri. They discuss Fiberplane’s 3-years long journey with Rust, building an interactive observability notebook. They touch on Benno’s experience switching from .NET to Rust and share insights on using Rust for a commercial product, including the reasons behind Fiberplane’s Rust adoption. They then dive into the challenges of maintaining Fiberplane’s codebase and conclude with a few tips for developers looking for Rust jobs. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:33] - Start of the interview [@01:17] - Benno’s journey as a Software Engineer [@04:29] - Fiberplane’s products [@07:05] - Building an observability product in Rust [@09:25] - Uses for Rust at Fiberplane [@13:30] - WASM and front end [@22:04] - Fiberplane’s 3-year experience with Rust [@32:43] - Benno’s advice for developers seeking Rust jobs [@35:28] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Luca Palmieri

Florent Bécart, CTO at Nikulipe, sits down with Luca Palmieri. Florent discusses Nikulipe’s reasons for adopting Rust: lower operational costs, scalability, safety, security and maintainability. Nikulipe has also made a bet on Rust for its frontend development needs, using Yew and WebAssembly. The interview closes with an overview of the challenges they faced, including long compile times and workspace management. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:00] - Introduction Video recording of the interview [@00:33] - Start of the interview [@01:22] - Florent’s presentation [@02:56] - Nikulipe’s decision to adopt Rust [@05:10] - Managing spiky workloads with Rust [@06:41] - Using Rust for frontend development [@13:05] - Nikulipe’s challenges working with Rust [@22:31] - The future of Rust at Nikulipe [@23:37] - Florent’s advice on Rust for decision-makers [@26:30] - Conclusion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Mainmatter Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Mainmatter Hosts: Luca Palmieri

Allen Wyma talks with Sam Van Overmeire about Write Powerful Rust Macros, a book about writing macros within your Rust apps. Manning discount code: podrustacean24 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Sam Van Overmeire, developer & cloud consultant, author of Write Powerful Rust Macros [@09:00] - Why he chose to write about macros and the process of writing the book [@13:19] - Types of macros and book content [@19:38] - Macro security and more details about the book [@27:56] - Most interesting macros [@30:32] - When to write a macro and when not to [@36:59] - Manning Publishing and other Rust books [@41:51] - Closing discussion Other links https://www.newline.co/fullstack-rust — one of the books with the most extensive info on macros Jetbrains has an interesting series of blog posts about macros, useful for beginners proc-macro workshop by David Tolnay, implemented in some great videos by Jon Gjengset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geovSK3wMB8 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.72 and 1.73 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2024-05-18, which you can still watch. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@03:49] - Rust 1.72.0 [@04:24] - Report cfg-hidden items [@08:49] - Unlimited const evaluation time The 2M limit [@12:52] - Uplifted clippy lints [@16:53] - Stabilized APIs impl Sync for mpsc::Sender String::leak ACP for String::leak PR filed live [@25:46] - Future Windows compatibility [@26:20] - Changelog deep-dive [@26:38] - -O - [@27:43] - Rustdoc search Whitespace as path separator Search for slices and arr

Allen Wyma talks with Glen De Cauwsemaecker about Rama, a modular and customizable proxy built 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Introducing Glen De Cauwsemaecker [@01:26] - Rama functionality & use cases [@14:38] - Discussing the development story leading up to Rama’s upcoming release [@36:19] - Rama architecture, Glen’s background in game development [@48:06] - Closing discussion Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Orhun Parmaksiz about Ratatui, a TUI library for Rust to create beautiful console-based applications 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Orhun Parmaksiz [@01:21] - Origins of the project and overview of TUIs [@09:32] - Rebranding from tui-rs and continuing previous work [@14:50] - Documentation of Ratatui [@16:18] - Collecting community feedback [@22:00] - Custom designs in Ratatui (ratatui-splash-screen) [@22:19] - Other terminal UI projects [@25:32] - Status and upcoming directions for Ratatui [@27:55] - Closing discussion Other Resources Orhun’s Github Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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 Smithy smithy-rs [@09:01] - Pavex: a Rust framework for professionals Pavex: re-imaging API development in Rust (RustNationUK 2024) [@22:57] - Rustdoc JSON & the f macro Reasoning about Rust: an introduction to Rustdoc’s JSON format (EuroRust 2023) cargo-semver-checks [@37:19] - Lessons from maintaining open-source projects like rocket.rs Building a Better Foundation for Rocket’s Future The Economics of Programming Languages (Strange Loop 2023) [@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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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 Rust in Production podcast On the Metal podcast Chats with James podcast Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

Allen Wyma talks with Gabor Szabo, who also runs Rust Maven, 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: [email protected] 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

Rob Ede, lead maintainer of Actix Web, explains to Marco Otte-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: [email protected] 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 Otte-Witte

Allen Wyma talks with Dave MacLeod about his book “Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches” from Manning. Rustacean Station discount code for the book: au35mac 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Introduction: meet Dave MacLeod [@01:47] - Target audience and motivation behind the book [@08:32] - Taking a direct approach to learning [@15:14] - Understanding shadowing in Rust [@16:56] - Comparing “Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches” with “EasyRust” [@20:06] - Streamlined printing: Changes to printline and print in Rust [@22:08] - Dive into async Rust [@24:19] - Crafting a coherent flow: process and concept tie-ins in the book [@29:46] - Tackling advanced topics: macros, iterators, and closures [@33:05] - Exploring the chrono crate [@35:29] - Safety and testing: discussing unsafe Rust [@41:49] - The book’s release date [@44:18] - Dave’s experience writing the book [@46:54] - Future plans and projects [@49:33] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

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: [email protected] 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] - <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.html#direct-minim