Another questions and answers session from August, 2020.

Timestamps

• [@0:00:00] Intro
• [@0:02:22] Contributing to Rust projects
• [@0:05:20] Recent Mozilla layoffs
• [@0:07:47] Intermediate Rust
• [@0:11:57] Test-driven development
• [@0:14:28] Microsoft and OSS
• [@0:16:31] Things I’d change in Rust
• [@0:18:40] Interop between C and Rust
• [@0:20:36] More things I’d change in Rust
• [@0:21:44] More interop between C and Rust
• [@0:22:05] Trump admin. visa changes
• [@0:25:18] Shared Rust dependencies
• [@0:27:53] Best Rust nightly feature
• [@0:30:17] Ooops, wrong view
• [@0:31:44] More Rust nightly features
• [@0:37:08] Learning other languages
• [@0:38:18] Actor frameworks
• [@0:39:26] Rust REPL
• [@0:40:49] Future of Noria
• [@0:41:55] Top Rust projects
• [@0:44:06] Work between undergrad and PhD
• [@0:46:00] Learning Rust concurrency
• [@0:48:30] Experience at MIT
• [@0:52:03] Leaving academia
• [@0:54:05] Podcast recommendations
• [@0:58:15] Desktop setup
• [@1:00:43] Recommended non-fiction
• [@1:03:14] Strings, cloning, and maps
• [@1:03:55] Rust for DSP
• [@1:05:02] Job hunt & what’s next?
• [@1:06:51] Haskell has a REPL
• [@1:07:30] Systems eng. practice
• [@1:09:46] Tabletop games online
• [@1:11:45] Rust graphics programming
• [@1:12:49] Avoid Rust becoming C++
• [@1:13:59] Mixing industry and academia
• [@1:15:23] Dependency bloat
• [@1:17:46] Finding Rust jobs
• [@1:20:25] Writing cron in Rust
• [@1:22:10] Remote work
• [@1:25:52] MPI programming
• [@1:26:52] Where do you want to live?
• [@1:30:53] Web programming in Rust
• [@1:32:54] Programmers you admire
• [@1:39:00] Rust and academia
• [@1:41:00] Undergraduate theses
• [@1:42:34] When not to use Rust
• [@1:45:08] Kernel modules in Rust
• [@1:46:09] Favorite lang. pre-Rust
• [@1:48:25] WebAssembly and WASI
• [@1:49:05] btrfs
• [@1:49:46] Joining a Rust team
• [@1:51:25] Working on Rust
• [@1:53:15] Is your webcam mirrored?
• [@1:53:53] Most impactful book
• [@1:55:02] Formal verification???
• [@2:00:31] How old are you?
• [@2:00:52] Only looking for Rust jobs
• [@2:02:24] First programming language
• [@2:03:25] The Rust foundation
• [@2:04:55] Parsing binary data
• [@2:06:16] Big projects in Rust
• [@2:07:51] Compile time
• [@2:11:10] Slower software
• [@2:12:45] Immutable datastructures
• [@2:13:15] Making slow software fast
• [@2:15:45] IPFS
• [@2:16:20] Intermission
• [@2:19:01] Future of WebAssembly
• [@2:20:15] Static linking
• [@2:24:48] cranelift
• [@2:25:56] US political climate
• [@2:28:52] Signing off