Allen Wyma talks with Brenden Matthews, the author of the book Code Like a Pro in Rust.

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Timestamps

[@0:41] - Brenden’s Bio
[@1:30] - Where the idea to write the book came from
[@4:32] - Pythonic, Rustacious/Idiomatic Rust and other coding style terms
[@6:25] - Writing idiomatic code
[@10:19] - Helper methods
[@12:34] - From trait
[@15:20] - Into trait
[@17:00] - Errors in Rust
[@26:59] - Other languages borrowing Rust’s ideas for memory safety and no null type
[@29:21] - Kotlin, Dart, Swift & Zig
[@30:58] - LLVM, Swift & Rust and evolution of languages
[@35:32] - Backwards compatibility in Rust
[@39:00] - Experiences and the improvements in Rust
[@42:44] - Components are added manually, but should they be installed by default?
[@48:16] - Knowing when to use libc and adding a C runtime
[@59:58] - Who Code Like a Pro in Rust is written for


Other Resources

Brenden’s Blog


Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma