Podcasts by New Rustacean
A show about the Rust programming language and the people who use it.
Further podcasts by Chris Krycho
Podcast on the topic Technologie
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Meta 3: Happy Coding from 2019-05-27T09:15
A story and a dream (and the promise of Rust): the final episode of New Rustacean!
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News: Rust 1.35 from 2019-05-23T21:00
WASI, Option::copied, and the future of async/await syntax!
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- Rust 1.34.1
CYSK: bindgen and cbindgen from 2019-05-17T20:10
Automatic generation of FFI types between Rust and C APIs.
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- bindgen
e031: FFI Deep Dive from 2019-05-13T20:40
Exposing Rust types and functions to C API consumers.
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e030: Can You See Me Now? from 2019-04-26T22:00
Item visibility and pub(<restricted>) as API design tools.
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The easiest and most effective way to understand the example in this case...
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News: Rust 1.33 and 1.34 from 2019-04-20T13:15
Moar const fn, some Pin, and alternative Cargo registries!
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e029: I’m Out to C from 2019-04-03T22:15:12
Using Rust’s Foreign Function Interface (FFI) with C!
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Bonus 14: How the Sausage Gets Made from 2019-03-23T20:50:12
How I make the show, and why you won’t find it on Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher.
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Bonus 13: I Still Make Silly Mistakes from 2019-02-28T07:20
A story about parsing command-line arguments manually and some thoughts on “rookie mistakes.”
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e028: Meet My Associates from 2019-02-21T21:30
Associated items: functions and methods, constants, types, and (very briefly!) GATs.
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News: Rust 1.32 from 2019-01-22T20:20:57
dbg!, unified paths, more places you can use Self, and a bunch of const fn stabilizations—plus some neat community highlights!
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News: Rust 1.31 and the 2018 Edition, Part II from 2019-01-14T15:01:39
Stabilizing rustfmt, clippy, tool lints, and const fn (all in both editions!), and the 2018 Edition-specific features: syntax changes and non-lexical lifetimes!
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News: Rust 1.31 and the 2018 Edition, Part I from 2019-01-07T08:00
An overview of the edition, and some of the improvements that are available in both the 2015 and 2018 editions: better lifetime elision, some Cargo features, and some library stabilizations.
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e027: Trust Me; I Promise! from 2018-11-30T21:46:59
An intro to unsafe Rust and Rust’s idea of safety.
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A quick correction: on the show I said that a trait needed ...
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News: Rust 1.29 and 1.30 from 2018-11-16T07:10:41
Procedural macros, better paths, and the Rust 2018 beta!
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Rust 1.29:
Bonus 12: Translating Between Languages from 2018-10-23T21:30
Musings inspired by a project translating TypeScript to Rust
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Bonus 11: Burnout from 2018-09-22T21:21:51
What burnout is, the many ways it can happen to us, and what we can do about it.
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News: Rust 1.28 from 2018-08-16T17:00
Stable `#[global_allocator]`, more Rust 2018 Edition schedule news, video learning resources, and a static site generator!
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- Rust 1.28:
e026: Functional Programming Ideas from 2018-07-24T20:02:06
How Rust both borrows from FP languages and charts its own, very different course.
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e025: Traits Deep Dive, Part III from 2018-07-04T19:27:56
Closure traits, `impl trait`, `dyn trait`, and object safety!
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News: Rust 1.27 from 2018-06-30T13:57:28
Stable SIMD, `dyn trait`, `rustfix` and the alpha release of the Rust 2018 Edition Preview!
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- Rust 1.27:
e024: Traits Deep Dive, Part II from 2018-06-19T20:01:50
Operators as sugar for traits, traits as generic constraints, monomorphization, and universal and existential types.
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News: Rust 1.26 from 2018-05-14T20:45
impl trait, match on references, Results from main, and more. A good way to mark three years since Rust 1.0!
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e023: Traits Deep Dive, Part I from 2018-04-28T15:33:44
Defining and using your own traits, using other crates' traits, and the orphan rule.
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Traits—
News: Rust 1.25 from 2018-03-31T14:34:45
Paths and matches and SIMD, cargo new changes, and tons of community-driven learning materials!
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News: Rust 1.24 from 2018-03-01T20:37:32
Performance wins, incremental compilation, and the Rust 2018 Roadmap and Epoch.
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CYSK: Serde from 2018-02-10T15:24:26
The library for serialization and deserialization in Rust.
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e023: Send and Sync from 2018-01-31T20:45
The “marker traits” that Rust uses for safe concurrency.
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Interview – Diesel 1.0, with Sean Griffin – Part 2 from 2018-01-21T16:25:23
Getting Diesel to 1.0, writing docs and exposing problems with the API, improving Diesel in the future, and thinking about API design for open source libraries in general.
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Interview – Diesel 1.0, with Sean Griffin – Part 1 from 2018-01-13T12:50
Growing Diesel's community, self-imposed technical challenges, and some of the ways Diesel has contributed to the Rust ecosystem.
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Increasing Rust's Reach: Matt Gathu from 2017-12-30T16:00
Matt’s experience porting wget to Rust.
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Increasing Rust's Reach: Lee Baillie from 2017-12-26T13:35:16
Lee’s experience designing a new website for Rust.
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Increasing Rust's Reach: Anna Liao from 2017-12-20T22:00
Anna's experience learning Rust while porting a Raspberry Pi Python project as part of the Increasing Rust’s Reach 2017 program.
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RBR 2017: Katie Nolan from 2017-12-15T07:46:41
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Ben Beckwith from 2017-12-14T18:26:20
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Andrew Hobden from 2017-12-13T16:20
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Parry Wilcox from 2017-12-12T07:05:27
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Matthias Endler from 2017-12-11T17:50:53
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Ben Striegel from 2017-12-10T08:15:05
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Holden Marcsisin from 2017-12-09T09:15
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Esty Thomas from 2017-12-07T19:15
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Thomas Gideon from 2017-12-06T16:30
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Tom Kriezkowski from 2017-11-26T16:14:25
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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News: Rust 1.21 and 1.22 from 2017-11-24T13:47:24
Quality of life improvements, Failure, wasm, and rustdoc fun.
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- Rust 1.21
RBR 2017: Jess Saxeter from 2017-11-19T13:00
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Pete Lyons from 2017-11-18T13:55:02
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Arun Kulsheshthra from 2017-11-14T20:02:51
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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RBR 2017: Anthony Deschamps from 2017-11-13T21:02:36
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
## Transcript
**Chris:** hello! Can you tell me your name and a little bit about yourself? Listen
RBR 2017: Colin Dean from 2017-11-11T13:22:48
A micro-interview recorded at Rust Belt Rust 2017, in Columbus, Ohio, October 27–28.
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Meta 2: Two milestones from 2017-09-25T07:20:35
Two years and fifty episodes of New Rustacean—time to celebrate with stickers and shirts!
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News: Rust 1.20 from 2017-08-31T20:30
Associated constants, conference season, meetups, and more!
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- Rust 1.20
Bonus 9: Open source is mostly just normal people from 2017-08-14T07:00
My experience with ember-cli-typescript as an example: we're all just people muddling along and doing our best.
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e021: Keeping your types under cover from 2017-07-17T18:35
Using type aliases and creating custom type wrappers for more expressive and safer code.
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News 3: Increasing Rust's Reach from 2017-07-04T14:00
Growing Rust's diversity to help Rust grow.
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CYSK: Rocket from 2017-06-30T20:00
An accessible, well-designed web framework in Rust!
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Interview 4 – Jonathan Turner: Part 3 from 2017-06-17T13:47:30
Smoothing the Rust dev story
Future work on the RLS, in Rust itself, and in Servo.
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Building the Rust Languag...
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Interview 4 – Jonathan Turner: Part 2 from 2017-05-30T14:36:28
Making Rust Better
Rust as the fusion of systems and high-level programming languages, and the RLS.
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Interview 4 – Jonathan Turner: Part 1 from 2017-04-30T20:13:06
Getting to Rust
Background, TypeScript, coming to Rust, and how helpful the Rust community can be.
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e020: Putting code in its place from 2017-04-01T12:38:33
How do we organize code in Rust? Where do we break it apart into modules or crates, and why?
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Structuring code in a language like Rust can seem a bit more ambiguo...
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Bonus 8: Giving back (by teaching) from 2017-03-19T09:00
On the responsibilities and opportunities we have to help others with our knowledge and abilities.
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Many of us have been very blessed with opportunities and suppo...
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e018: `Borrow`, `AsRef`, `Deref`: my head hurts now from 2017-01-31T16:32:23
Three traits which are essential for designing good, Rustic APIs.
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Borrow, AsRef, and Deref are a little complicated, but they...
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News 2: Let's talk roadmap! from 2016-12-29T12:00
Rust’s achievements in 2016 and goals for 2017
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Meta 1 – Slowing Down from 2016-11-12T11:26:56
Avoiding burnout by taking it a little easier.
Sometimes, the way a podcast stays in existence is by coming out less often. That’s what’s happening here.
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Interview 3 – Carol (Nichols || Goulding) from 2016-09-30T06:00
Carol (Nichols || Goulding) on learning Rust, teaching Rust, and building community
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Chris talks with Carol (Nichols || Goulding), a Rust community team member, co-au... Listen
Bonus 7: Katas—or: learning by doing from 2016-09-10T11:50:19
Katas—or: learning by doing
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One of the best ways to learn is to pick a small problem you have already internalized, and to do it again but in a new language or i...
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Bonus 6: It doesn‘t have to be sexy from 2016-08-20T10:15:43
Building (and celebrating) all the little, not-so-glorious pieces of the Rust ecosystem.
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We love the Rust compiler team. But there’s more to the Rust community, ...
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e017: Point me where I need to go from 2016-08-08T14:35
A deep dive on references and pointers in Rust.
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By listener request, today we look at the syntax and semantics of referencing and dereferencing and the correspon...
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e016: RefCells and code smells from 2016-07-23T11:58:33
Digging deeper on smart pointers and mutability with Cell and RefCell.
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What are the Cell and RefCell types, and w...
Interview 2::Part 2 – Raph Levien from 2016-07-04T17:35
Raph Levien on Rust’s current strengths and places it can improve
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Chris chats with Raph Levien about what inspired him to build a text editor, as well as about w...
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Interview 2::Part 1 – Raph Levien from 2016-06-24T19:26:51
Raph Levien on using Rust to build the Xi editor
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Chris chats with Raph Levien about his background in software development, what attracted him to Rust, and how h...
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e015: Not dumb pointers from 2016-06-17T18:07:22
Box, String, Vec, Rc, and Arc have this in common: they’re not dumb.
This episode, we take a close look at smart pointer t...
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News 1: One year and counting from 2016-05-31T12:13:25
A year in, Rust is changing fast but still stable.
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Bonus 5: Better than open-source contributions from 2016-05-09T19:47:24
Some things matter more than contributing to open-source software in your free time. A lot more.
It’s trendy to ask for open-source work as evidence of your interest in tech and co... Listen
e014: Stringing things along from 2016-04-25T20:16:03
Strings &strs and Vecs and slices (and Unicode) – oh, my!
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This episode, I take a deep dive on strings in Rust, looking...
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Bonus 4: We can have nice things from 2016-04-19T05:50
Just how good Rust is, and how you can learn it even if you’re busy.
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Sometimes life goes crazy and I don’t have time to do all the technical writing required for...
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e013: Staying alive from 2016-04-04T17:52:21
Reasoning about and using lifetimes in Rust (and why we need them)
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Lifetimes are our way of reasoning about how long a given piece of data is
available and safe to u...
e012: I'm not familiar with that expression from 2016-03-21T05:00
What it means to be an expression-oriented language, and how that works out in Rust.
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Rust is an expression-oriented language. What does that mean, and h...
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e011: Once Upon a Type from 2016-03-08T08:00
Type systems: strong vs. weak, dynamic vs. static, and degrees of expressivity.
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Talking about type systems! A broad and wide-ranging discussion about type system...
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Interview 1::Part 2 – Sean Griffin from 2016-02-25T06:30
Sean Griffin on type systems and hopes for Rust's future
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Chris chats with Sean Griffin about the tradeoffs between mental overhead and type safety, the expressiveness of di...
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Interview 1::Part 1 – Sean Griffin from 2016-02-15T13:00
Sean Griffin on Rust, ORMs, and Web Frameworks
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Chris chats with Sean Griffin about his programming background and initial experience with Rust, Rust's appeal, and what he'...
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Bonus 3: Building as a community from 2016-01-31T17:08:36
Community is one of the most important parts of a programming language community, or indeed any technical community. In this episode, I talk a bit about what happens when you don't have...
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e010: Macros rule! from 2016-01-18T08:25
Macros rule!
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Because of the way macros are exported—before name resolution on crates occurs—the documentation for the macros defined in the source for this episode ... Listen
e009: Composing a Rustic tune from 2016-01-09T14:00:11
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Last time, we looked at generics and traits at a high level. This time, we dig deeper on traits, looking specifically at std::iter::Iterator as an example ...
e008: Just like something else from 2015-12-27T09:19:47
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In this episode we cover—at a very high level—two more fundamental concepts in Rust programming: generics and traits.
Generics gives us the abilitty to ...
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e007: Testify from 2015-12-13T10:38:36
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All about testing in Rust! In order, we take a look at:
- Why you need tests.
- Unit tests in other (dynamically-typed) languages vs. in Rust.
Bonus 2: Legacy Code from 2015-12-06T11:23:54
Legacy Code
Software developers spend a large part of our careers dealing with legacy code. But what is the best way to deal with legacy code? When should you rip out the old and...
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Bonus 1: Polyglot Programming Promises and Perils from 2015-11-25T09:27:09
Polyglot Programming Promises and Perils
Sometimes, you’re doing a technical interview, and you just cannot figure out why your JavaScript function isn’t behaving like it should… and then...
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e006: Modularize this! from 2015-11-16T08:36:26
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Today, we are talking about modules, packages, and APIs in Rust. Taking a bit of a breather after some pretty hard material the last few weeks.
For reference, th...
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e005: Allocate it where? from 2015-11-08T13:15:53
Allocate it where?
Subject: Returning functions from other functions, and thinking about the stack, the heap, and reference types.
e004: Functionalized from 2015-10-29T20:45:12
Subject: Functions, methods, closures, and function as arguments!
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e003: No. more. nulls. from 2015-10-21T11:10:12
No More Nulls
Subject: Enumerated (enum) types, pattern matching, and meaningful return types.
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Today’s episode discusses, in...
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e002: Something borrowed, something… moved? from 2015-10-11T20:24:16
Something borrowed, something… moved?
Subject: The struct data type constructor, and the basics of Rust’s “ownership” concept and “borrowing” and “moving”.
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e001: Document All the Things from 2015-10-03T14:04:28
Document all the things!
Subject: Documentation in general, and rustdoc and cargo doc in particular.
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e000: Hello, world! from 2015-09-24T17:14:50
Hello, World!
Subject: The host, the language, and the show!
Today’s show is pretty meta. You can skip it if you just want to start with something more technical...
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