Rustacean Station

Rustacean Station
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Come journey with us into the weird, wonderful, and wily world of Rust.

  1. 3d ago

    Migrating C to Rust with Jonas Kruckenberg

    Allen Wyma talks with Jonas Kruckenberg from Mainmatter about migrating production C and C++ codebases to Rust and the C to Rust Migration Book. They discuss incremental migration, refactoring legacy code, designing safe FFI boundaries, and testing undefined behavior. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@00:00] - Intro [@00:10] - Welcome and introducing Jonas Kruckenberg [@01:52] - From JavaScript and Tauri to Rust, k23, and Mainmatter [@04:41] - Incremental migration versus a complete rewrite [@07:51] - The C to Rust Migration Book [@13:11] - Why starting with leaf modules can fail [@15:31] - Refactoring C before rewriting it in Rust [@17:26] - Building safe Rust interfaces over C linked lists [@22:06] - Undefined behavior and legacy FFI code [@23:29] - Porting strcmp calls with null pointers [@25:24] - Testing tools, assertions, and the FFI trust boundary [@27:39] - Finding the book and getting in touch [@28:25] - Memory safety and the future of Rust Referenced resources The C to Rust Migration Book Tauri k23 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

  2. Feb 27

    Hopp with Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos

    Allen Wyma talks with Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos, creators of Hopp, a tool that enables remote pair programming sessions. Hopp is built with Tauri and Rust, and is open source. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos [@3:12] - The problem with existing tools: high latency and poor quality [@7:28] - Why Tauri was chosen (and its limitations) [@10:28] - Moving from WebKit to a custom Rust WebRTC implementation [@14:34] - How Hopp handles ultra-low latency screen sharing [@22:50] - Technical deep dive: Bypassing browser limitations on macOS [@31:18] - Roadmap: Migrating fully to Rust and future integrations [@34:25] - Linux support challenges and distribution [@41:03] - Using iced for Rust-based UI rendering [@42:14] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

  3. Jan 23

    What's New in the Rust 2024 Edition

    Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the Rust 2024 Edition. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@03:05] - RPIT lifetime capture rules [@08:00] - let chains in if and while if let temporary scope Mara’s post on “super let” Tail expression temporary scope [@19:15] - Match ergonomics reservations [@24:49] - Unsafe extern blocks [@29:15] - Unsafe attributes [@32:03] - unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn warning [@34:51] - Disallow references to static mut [@39:20] - Never type fallback change [@43:33] - Macro Fragment Specifiers [@47:47] - gen keyword [@49:36] - Changes to the prelude [@50:32] - Add IntoIterator for Box [@56:03] - Newly unsafe functions [@58:51] - Rust-version aware Cargo resolver [@1:03:03] - Cargo table and key name consistency [@1:03:57] - Reject unused inherited default-features [@1:05:37] - Rustdoc combined doctests [@1:07:13] - Rustdoc nested include! change [@1:09:19] - The rustfmt style edition Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: synchis Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

  4. Jan 22

    What's New in Rust 1.85 through 1.87

    Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.85 through 1.88 releases of Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:11] - Rust 1.85 [@02:05] - async closures RFC 3668 Stabilization report [@07:45] - Hiding trait implementations from diagnostics [@09:43] - FromIterator and Extend for tuples [@12:10] - Updates to std::env::home_dir() Deprecation discussion Deprecation PR Originally abandoned fix Undeprecation [@15:19] - Stabilized APIs [@15:30] - number::midpoint [@16:18] - Waker::noop [@17:49] - ptr::fn_addr_eq [@20:10] - Changelog deep-dive [@20:10] - De-duplicate and improve definition of c_char [@22:56] - More constification [@23:51] - Rust 1.85.1 [@24:46] - Rust 1.86 [@25:24] - Trait upcasting [@30:49] - HashMaps and slices now support indexing multiple elements mutably [@33:50] - Allow safe functions to be marked with the #[target_feature] attribute [@36:21] - Debug assertions that pointers are non-null when required for soundness [@39:48] - Make missing_abi lint warn by default [@40:55] - Target deprecation warning for 1.87.0 [@42:25] - Stabilized APIs [@42:25] - {float}::next_up [@44:55] - Vec::pop_if [@46:41] - Changelog deep-dive [@46:41] - Changing -O to opt-level=3 [@47:47] - Optimized rustc binaries for aarch64 [@49:04] - Deprecate cargo --token [@49:43] - No more “did you mean” in Cargo [@50:14] - Sans-serif in rustdoc [@50:45] - Rust 1.87 [@51:27] - Anonymous pipes [@53:06] - Safe architecture intrinsics Update the standard library to Rust 2024 [@55:00] - asm! jumps to Rust code [@57:06] - Precise capturing in impl Trait in trait definitions The Captures “trick” Talk on impl Trait [@58:45] - Stabilized APIs [@58:45] - Vec::extract_if [@1:00:13] - ::split_off [@1:01:47] - OsStr::display [@1:03:40] - ::cast_signed [@1:04:41] - ::is_multiple_of [@1:05:31] - ::unbounded_shl [@1:06:20] - TryFrom> for String [@1:06:46] - Box>::write [@1:08:23] - String::extend_from_within [@1:07:46] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:07:46] - Actually un-deprecate home_dir [@1:10:41] - Cargo SBOM support (RFC 3553) [@1:11:48] - More Cargo ANSI sequences Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: synchis Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

  5. Jan 22

    What's New in Rust 1.88 through 1.90

    Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.88 through 1.90 releases of Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:26] - Rust 1.88 [@00:26] - Let chains The if let temporary scope [@09:09] - Naked functions [@11:55] - Boolean configuration [@14:15] - Cargo automatic cache cleaning [@17:52] - Stabilized APIs [@17:52] - hint::select_unpredictable [@21:16] - ::as_chunks [@22:25] - Default for *const T [@23:13] - HashMap::extract_if [@23:43] - More metadata from Span [@24:48] - Changelog deep-dive [@24:48] - De-stabilize #[bench] [@26:55] - --no-capture [@28:31] - Rust 1.89 [@28:40] - Explicitly inferred arguments to const generics [@30:14] - Mismatched lifetime syntaxes lint [@35:29] - More x86 target features [@36:33] - Cross-compiled doctests [@38:31] - i128 and u128 in extern "C" functions [@40:38] - Demoting x86_64-apple-darwin to Tier 2 Platform support policy [@42:18] - Standards Compliant C ABI on wasm32-unknown-unknown More about the ABI changes [@46:05] - Stabilized APIs [@46:05] - File::lock [@48:34] - Changelog deep-dive [@48:40] - aarch64 frame pointers Why do frame pointers matter? [@49:59] - Allow storing format_args! in variable Behind the scenes of format_args! [@51:38] - rustdoc sidebar on mobile [@52:14] - Rust 1.90 [@52:14] - LLD is now the default linker on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu PR with lots of linked resources rustc performance diff with lld [@1:01:26] - Cargo adds native support for workspace publishing [@1:03:03] - Stabilized APIs [@1:03:26] - u{n}::saturating_sub_signed [@1:04:20] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:04:20] - home_dir fall back if HOME is set but empty Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: synchis Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

  6. 10/29/2025

    What's New in Rust 1.81 through 1.84

    Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.81 through 1.84 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2025-10-26, which you can still watch. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:58] - Rust 1.81 [@02:05] - core::error::Error Tracking issue for generic member access build-std Rust project goal [@08:27] - New sort implementations PR implementing the change Repo with the research [@10:49] - #[expect(lint)] [@14:37] - Lint reasons [@16:18] - Stabilized APIs [@16:34] - Duration::abs_diff [@17:25] - hint::assert_unchecked [@22:36] - fs::exists [@25:37] - Compatibility notes [@20:40] - Split panic hook and panic handler arguments [@23:00] - Abort on uncaught panics in extern "C" functions [@27:01] - WASI 0.1 target naming changed [@30:10] - Fix for CVE-2024-43402 CVE announcement [@33:39] - Rust 1.82 [@33:39] - cargo info [@35:06] - Apple target promotions Platform support tiers [@40:10] - Precise capturing use syntax The Captures “trick” Talk on impl Trait [@47:24] - Native syntax for creating a raw pointer Pointers Are Complicated Pointers Are Complicated II Pointers Are Complicated III [@53:43] - Safe items with unsafe extern [@59:32] - Unsafe attributes [@1:03:44] - Omitting empty types in pattern matching The never type [@1:11:33] - Floating-point NaN semantics and const [@1:17:41] - Constants as assembly immediates [@1:19:06] - Safely addressing unsafe statics [@1:22:56] - Stabilized APIs [@1:23:03] - thread::Builder::spawn_unchecked [@1:25:10] - Working with MaybeUninit [@1:25:48] - Exposed SIMD intrinsics [@1:26:14] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:26:26] - Rewrite binary search implementation [@1:27:30] - Rust 1.83 [@1:27:55] - New const capabilities [@1:31:50] - Stabilized APIs [@1:32:06] - New io::ErrorKind variants [@1:33:10] - Option::get_or_insert_default [@1:34:56] - char::MIN [@1:35:48] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:35:48] - Unicode 16 Emoji [@1:39:51] - Sysroot trim-paths [@1:41:31] - cargo update informs of outdated versions [@1:42:43] - cargo --timings dark mode [@1:43:15] - Checksum-based freshness in Cargo nightly [@1:44:26] - Rust 1.84 [@1:44:40] - Cargo considers Rust version for dependency version selection [@1:49:03] - Migration to the new trait solver begins [@1:51:47] - Strict provenance APIs Pointers Are Complicated Pointers Are Complicated II Pointers Are Complicated III Rust has provenance Gankra’s write-up on raw pointer design Strict provenance APIs tracking issue [@1:57:53] - Stabilized APIs [@1:57:58] - ::isqrt [@1:58:15] - core::ptr::dangling [@1:59:15] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:59:15] - Include Cargo.lock in published crates [@2:00:12] - wasm32-wasi target removed [@2:01:06] - &raw *invalid_ptr is fine Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: synchis Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

  7. 06/28/2025

    Dioxus with Jonathan Kelley

    Allen Wyma talks with Jonathan Kelley, creator of Dioxus, a framework for building web, mobile, and desktop apps with a single Rust codebase. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Jonathan Kelley, Creator of Dioxus [@01:55] - The Origin & Core Technology of Dioxus [@24:45] - Hot Reloading for a Faster Workflow [@30:20] - The Road to a Stable 1.0 Release [@36:36] - The Future Vision: Full-Stack, Native APIs, and Beyond [@42:55] - Collaboration within the Rust UI Ecosystem Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

  8. 06/20/2025

    Malachite with Adi Seredinschi

    Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented in Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems [@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint [@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase [@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite [@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods [@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites [@40:42] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

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Come journey with us into the weird, wonderful, and wily world of Rust.

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    Rustacean Station
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    184
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