The Rustacean Station Podcast

Refactoring to Rust with Lily Mara

Posted Sat, 11 Dec 2021 17:30:00 +0000

Allen Wyma talks with Lily Mara, the author of the book Refactoring to Rust.

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Timestamps

  • [@1:26] - Lily’s Bio
  • [@3:33] - Her blogs helped her improve her writing
  • [@5:09] - How the book came to be
  • [@9:34] - Knowing when to add a new language to an existing project
  • [@12:07] - Tools for measuring memory usage
  • [@15:04] - Garbage collection
  • [@18:30] - Strongly and weakly typed languages & dynamic vs static dispatch
  • [@21:13] - About the book
  • [@25:40] - Go being treated like a C library
  • [@27:02] - Memory allocators
  • [@35:51] - When did Lily started working on the book?
  • [@37:44] - Writing examples (it’s hard!)
  • [@46:36] - How technical are the editors?
  • [@49:00] - The Rust community is very welcoming
  • [@50:14] - Publishers that are publishing Rust books
  • [@52:17] - Lily’s Twitch stream for Manning
  • [@53:07] - Lily’s advice for aspiring Rust developers

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Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma