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.

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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

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Allen Wyma talks with Brenden Matthews, the author of the book Idiomatic Rust.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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-string literals
  • std::ffi::CStr
• [@28:20] - Support for recursion in async fn
• [@31:43] - offset_of!
• [@36:32] - Enable strip in release profiles by default
• [@39:35] - Stabilized APIs
  • [@39:36] - core::net
  • [@40:59] - f64::round_ties_even
  • [@42:05] - Mutex::clear_poison
  • [@43:43] - File::create_new
    • OpenOptions
• [@46:15] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@46:46] - Lint on references to static mut
    • SyncUnsafeCell
  • [@50:05] - Undeprecate unstable_features lint
  • [@51:37] - Deny braced macro invocation in let-else
    • Details from dtolnay comment
  • [@55:45] - cargo:: in build scripts
  • [@56:20] - Standardized package ID spec in Cargo
  • [@57:36] - slice::first_chunk

[@59:55] - Rust 1.77.1

Stripping debug info in release builds broke Windows.

[@1:00:58] - Rust 1.77.2

Fixes CVE-2024-24576.

Detailed advisory, fix, and current logic.

[@1:04:54] - Rust 1.78

• [@1:07:55] - Diagnostic attributes
  • #[diagnostic] documentation
• [@1:13:13] - Asserting unsafe preconditions
  • Implementation PR
• [@1:19:56] - Deterministic realignment
• [@1:23:24] - Stabilized APIs
  • [@1:23:33] - impl Read for &Stdin
  • [@1:24:03] - Relax bounds on Error trait implementations
• [@1:25:40] - Compatibility notes
  • [@1:25:40] - Windows requirement bump
    • Replace pthread RwLock
    • Slim reader/writer locks
  • [@1:29:25] - LLVM 18 brings *128 ABI change
• [@1:32:04] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@1:32:04] - Make non-PartialEq-typed consts as patterns a hard error
  • [@1:34:59] - Suggest moving definition if non-found macro_rules! is defined later
  • [@1:36:08] - Stabilize v4 of Cargo lockfile
  • [@1:37:36] - cargo update highlights stale dependencies
  • [@1:38:23] - Deprecate non-extension .cargo/config files
  • [@1:39:19] - Clippy lint assigning_clones
  • [@1:40:49] - Clippy lint incompatible_msrv
  • [@1:42:22] - cargo new stopped commenting in Cargo.toml

Credits

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Audio Editing: Aerocity

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

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Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

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.

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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

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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.

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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] - impl Step for Ipv4
  • [@31:33] - private_in_public lint
    • RFC 2145
  • [@36:02] - New Cargo lockfile recommendation
    • Rationale

[@37:34] - Rust 1.74.1

No super interesting changes.

But, check in on PR filed during stream.

[@41:56] - Rust 1.75

• [@41:56] - async fn and -> impl Trait in traits
  • Blog announcing what’s actually stabilizing
  • Jon’s impl Trait talk
• [@55:34] - Pointer byte offset APIs
• [@58:22] - Code layout optimizations for rustc
  • BOLT
• [@1:04:34] - Stabilized APIs
  • [@1:04:34] - Atomic*::from_ptr
  • [@1:06:42] - OS-independent file times
  • [@1:07:46] - Option::as_slice
    • Long reddit comment
• [@1:09:59] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@1:09:59] - impl BufRead for VecDeque<u8>
  • [@1:12:40] - Workspace-aware cargo new
  • [@1:13:20] - matching with exhaustive integer ranges
  • [@1:14:52] - Cross-crate auto-inlining for small fns
  • [@1:18:31] - Cargo output hyperlinking

[@1:22:00] - Mid-stream PR check-in

Another PR check-in and tracking in homu rustc build queue.

Credits

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Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Hosts: Luca Palmieri