Questions and answers session from May, 2024.

Link list

• Discord: https://discord.jonhoo.eu
• LogLog Games article: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/
• Rust API Guidelines: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/
• Rust Design Patterns Book: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/
• Data Latam podcast: https://www.datalatam.com/
• Engineering blogs:
  • https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/
  • https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/
  • https://without.boats/
  • https://danluu.com/
  • https://docs.rs/dtolnay/
  • https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
  • https://noidea.dog/glue
  • https://matklad.github.io/
  • https://www.ralfj.de/blog/
  • https://faultlore.com/blah/
  • https://fasterthanli.me/articles
  • https://www.evanmiller.org/
  • https://blog.regehr.org/

Timestamps

• [@0:00:00] Introduction
• [@0:03:27] Decrusting rust-analyzer
• [@0:07:34] Unified approach to error handling in Rust
• [@0:14:35] What don’t you like about Rust?
• [@0:26:15] How to gain experience in Rust
• [@0:32:03] The recent loglog.games article about the bad Rust gamedev experience
• [@0:38:02] Struggles with a lack of motivation/focus/drive
• [@0:45:52] Rust for web development
• [@0:47:56] How are you doing
• [@0:54:57] Norway: upsides/downsides compared to the US
• [@1:06:41] How you stay focused and productive during the day
• [@1:19:01] Voting + tea + cat break
• [@1:22:44] Best practices in setting up a Rust project
• [@1:28:23] Unexpectedly high ROI things you’ve bought/started doing
• [@1:39:04] Getting a junior job in system programming with Rust
• [@1:42:09] Deciding to use async rust or not
• [@1:45:23] Design patterns that are specific to Rust
• [@1:48:01] Decrusting Leptos/BevyECS?
• [@1:48:57] Favorite YouTube channels
  • [@1:49:46] https://www.youtube.com/@BBCArchive
  • [@1:50:30] https://www.youtube.com/@CGPGrey
  • [@1:50:54] https://www.youtube.com/@danielthrasher
  • [@1:51:04] https://www.youtube.com/@everyframeapainting
  • [@1:51:25] https://www.youtube.com/@IanHubert2
  • [@1:51:53] https://www.youtube.com/@JosephAndersonChannel
  • [@1:52:08] https://www.youtube.com/@razbuten
  • [@1:52:22] https://www.youtube.com/@SummoningSalt
  • [@1:52:36] https://www.youtube.com/@MinutePhysics
  • [@1:52:46] https://www.youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif
  • [@1:52:53] https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile
  • [@1:52:58] https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
  • [@1:53:12] https://www.youtube.com/@ozzymanreviews
  • [@1:53:16] https://www.youtube.com/@RyanGeorge
  • [@1:53:54] https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo
  • [@1:54:02] https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers
  • [@1:54:09] https://www.youtube.com/@theslowmoguys
  • [@1:54:20] https://www.youtube.com/@Vsauce
• [@1:54:43] Code review style livestreams
• [@2:01:00] Do you still program at your job or is it mainly management?
• [@2:10:49] Do you do any workouts/exercises?
• [@2:14:54] A crate you don’t have the use for, but wish you did
• [@2:16:52] Rust for Data Engineering
• [@2:21:58] Voting time
• [@2:25:30] Engineering blogs to follow
• [@2:34:42] The most exiting company that is using Rust
• [@2:37:50] Enums or traits
• [@2:42:12] Crust of Rust on intrinsics/SIMD
• [@2:42:55] Frameworks for making non-web (RPC) services
• [@2:45:33] Organizing your daily work
• [@2:48:03] Quick-fire answers