Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with John Nunley, contributor to the smol async runtime.

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Timestamps


[@0:00] - Introduction
[@1:46] - Advantage of smol
[@5:40] - John Nunley’s programming background
[@11:50] - Tauri, GTK and other GUI frameworks
[@16:16] - Async.io
[@19:28] - Writing packages and breaking up packages into smaller modules
[@24:21] - John’s work career
[@25:09] - Windows vs Linux API
[@29:06] - windows-rs
[@30:03] - Windows support with Rust
[@31:46] - Recent changes in smol
[@33:16] - Event Listener and how it works
[@37:26] - Handling pull requests and complaints
[@41:40] - smol’s integration with other runtimes
[@44:54] - smol vs Tokio
[@47:04] - Reason why smol is growing in popularity among GUI crates
[@49:06] - Recent developments in async
[@52:18] - The Async working group
[@58:11] - Community-based crates with suggestions and structure
[@1:00:22] - What to expect to come out of smol in the near future?
[@1:02:11] - Parting thoughts


Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan