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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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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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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Hosts: Luca Palmieri

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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Allen Wyma talks with Sam Van Overmeire about Write Powerful Rust Macros, a book about writing macros within your Rust apps. Manning discount code: podrustacean24

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Sam Van Overmeire, developer & cloud consultant, author of Write Powerful Rust Macros
• [@09:00] - Why he chose to write about macros and the process of writing the book
• [@13:19] - Types of macros and book content
• [@19:38] - Macro security and more details about the book
• [@27:56] - Most interesting macros
• [@30:32] - When to write a macro and when not to
• [@36:59] - Manning Publishing and other Rust books
• [@41:51] - Closing discussion

Other links

• https://www.newline.co/fullstack-rust — one of the books with the most extensive info on macros
• Jetbrains has an interesting series of blog posts about macros, useful for beginners
• proc-macro workshop by David Tolnay, implemented in some great videos by Jon Gjengset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geovSK3wMB8

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.72 and 1.73 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

[@03:49] - Rust 1.72.0

• [@04:24] - Report cfg-hidden items
• [@08:49] - Unlimited const evaluation time
  • The 2M limit
• [@12:52] - Uplifted clippy lints
• [@16:53] - Stabilized APIs
  • impl Sync for mpsc::Sender
  • String::leak
    • ACP for String::leak
    • PR filed live
• [@25:46] - Future Windows compatibility
• [@26:20] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@26:38] - -O -
  • [@27:43] - Rustdoc search
    • Whitespace as path separator
    • Search for slices and arrays
  • [@30:58] - Cargo will bail if build script uses cargo:: (actually in 1.73)
  • [@34:13] - Cargo if workspace uses old resolver
  • [@35:12] - cargo-add will better preserve Cargo.toml
  • [@36:11] - rustfmt let-else
  • [@37:49] - cargo -Zscript

[@41:05] - Rust 1.72.1

[@43:37] - Rust 1.73.0

• [@43:45] - Cleaner panic messages
• [@46:58] - Thread local initialization
• [@51:12] - Stabilized APIs
  • {integer}::next_multiple_of
• [@54:53] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@55:00] - Unconditional recursion in drop
  • [@56:04] - Write Rust’s version into .comment section
    • Embed dependency versions into binary with cargo-sbom
  • [@58:30] - I/O traits for Arc<File>
  • [@59:34] - Make cargo --help easier to browse
  • [@1:03:01] - Merge io::Sink into io::Empty
  • [@1:05:11] - impl SliceIndex<str> for (Bound<usize>, Bound<usize>)

Credits

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Allen Wyma talks with Glen De Cauwsemaecker about Rama, a modular and customizable proxy built in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Introducing Glen De Cauwsemaecker
• [@01:26] - Rama functionality & use cases
• [@14:38] - Discussing the development story leading up to Rama’s upcoming release
• [@36:19] - Rama architecture, Glen’s background in game development
• [@48:06] - Closing discussion

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Allen Wyma talks with Orhun Parmaksiz about Ratatui, a TUI library for Rust to create beautiful console-based applications in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Orhun Parmaksiz
• [@01:21] - Origins of the project and overview of TUIs
• [@09:32] - Rebranding from tui-rs and continuing previous work
• [@14:50] - Documentation of Ratatui
• [@16:18] - Collecting community feedback
• [@22:00] - Custom designs in Ratatui (ratatui-splash-screen)
• [@22:19] - Other terminal UI projects
• [@25:32] - Status and upcoming directions for Ratatui
• [@27:55] - Closing discussion

Other Resources

• Orhun’s Github

Credits

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