February 3rd, 2023 × #Rust#Performance#Beginner
Supper Club × Rust In Action with Tim McNamara
This episode covers the history of Rust, how it aims to be more approachable for new developers, the steep learning curve, good introductory projects like command line utilities and games, performance and efficiency benefits, terminology like crates and cargo, and running Rust via WebAssembly.
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action about what Rust is, how to get started learning Rust, and ideas of good projects to begin learning Rust with.
Show Notes
- 00:37 Welcome
- 01:26 Guest introduction
- Rust in Action
- Tim on Twitter
- Tim on YouTube
- 03:51 What was it like to write a book on Rust?
- 07:52 What drew you to Rust?
- 13:01 The approachability of Rust
- 21:41 What's a good introductory project with Rust?
- 25:15 Why would someone learn Rust?
- It's time to try WASM
- 40:23 What is a crate and cargo in Rust?
- 44:17 Running Rust in various places
- 50:53 Should the average web developer try Rust?
- 52:13 Supper club questions
- 54:17 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
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