The Rustacean Station Podcast

Pants with Eric Arellano and Stu Hood

Posted Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:50:00 +0000

Allen Wyma talks with Eric Arellano (they/them) and Stu Hood (he/him), maintainers of Pants, a build system made for monorepos.

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Timestamps

  • [@00:10] - Pants’ Introduction
  • [@01:26] - Different languages used in building Pants
  • [@03:25] - Pants versions
  • [@06:00] - Pants’ history and why it started
  • [@11:09] - What is a Monorepo and why you would want to use it
  • [@13:48] - Polyrepo vs Monorepo
  • [@19:04] - What makes Pants unique
  • [@21:03] - Why Pants needed to rewrite some parts from Python to Rust and other languages
  • [@22:31] - Why Pants chose Rust
  • [@25:46] - Pants 1 vs Pants 2
  • [@27:12] - Challenges integrating Python and Rust
  • [@29:03] - How Eric and Stu figured out which parts should be written in Python and which should be in Rust
  • [@32:27] - Future plans and what’s next for Pants?
  • [@36:15] - Shoutouts and parting thoughts

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma