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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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

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: [email protected] 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

In this episode, host Gábor Szabó talks to Eli Shalom, Eureka Labs’ Co-Founder and CTO, and Senior Software Engineer Igal Tabachnik about how Rust is powering infrastructure at Eureka Labs - a blockchain company operating in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. Eureka Labs’ work focuses on advancing the logic of block construction to support more efficient execution and expand the functionality that can be packed into each block’s limited timeframe. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work. [@1:14] - Eli Shalom Co-Founder and CTO of Eureka Labs. [@2:20] - Igal Tabachnik Senior Software Engineer. Scala [@4:00] - About Eureka Labs and the “block builder”. Blockchain Ethereum Networks [@7:10] - What is blockchain? What is block building? Smart contract Smart contracts on Ethereum NP-Hard problem [@15:00] - Why Rust? reth [@25:45] - Ethereum implementation and deployment Ethereum specs and standards EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposals [@35:06] - How did you get started with Rust? Scala Haskell functional programming virtual threads / green threads / tokio Eq trait F# Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain talk by Runar Bjarnason. [@48:40] - How do you select the crates you use? Elm [@55:03] - How much do you use AI? Which AI tools do you use? Claude Code Amp of Sourcegraph GitHub Co-pilot ChatGPT LLMs Perlexity JetBrains [@1:04:05] - What should people do in order to be a better candidate for a job at your company? Vibe coding [@1:08:30] - Things to take into account when selecting a language [@1:10:48] - Training and mentoring new developers Redis Learning Rust: The Rust Book. Live coding streams by Jon Gjengset. Rust for Rustaceans book by Jon Gjengset. [@1:16:00] - Final notes Igal can be contacted on X/twitter @hmemcpy or via email at [email protected] Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Gábor Szabó Hosts: Gábor Szabó

Allen Wyma talks with DongYoon Kang aka kdy, creator of SWC, a Rust-based platform for creating fast developer tools. It’s used in existing projects such as Next.js, Parcel, and Deno. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet DongYoon Kang, creator of SWC, the Rust-based platform for the Web [@1:54] - SWC creation & background [@5:00] - Adoption by Deno, Next.js, and others [@8:45] - Learning Rust and building SWC [@11:14] - Community contributions and team structure [@14:48] - Performance improvements with Chili [@17:57] - SWC modules and supported languages [@20:28] - Exploring Dart support [@21:37] - Future plans for SWC Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

With AccessKit, Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat took on the ambitious task of abstracting over the accessibility APIs of several target OS’ to offer toolkit providers one unified way to make their UIs accessible across platforms. This interview was recorded live at RustWeek 2025 with your host Luuk van der Duim. 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@1:11] - Introducing Matt and Arnold. [@1:45] - “What are you working on?” [@2:00] - “What does it offer?” [@2:28] - “Who would use AccessKit?” [@2:51] - AccessKit bindings in languages besides Rust. [@3:14] - Unifying accessibility protocols. [@4:47] - AccessKit’s API. [@6:58] - AccessKit tree concepts. [@8:47] - When Arnold got involved. [@9:08] - 6000 lines of code to find Matt. [@12:56] - Matt’s history with Windows and Microsoft. [@14:00] - How Quorum relates to AccessKit, Quorum [@15:52] - Challenges Quorum UI development faced. [@18:12] - Arnold and Matt on the necessity for back-end testing, Android, iOS - Linux. [@21:45] - On Newton and its Chromium relation. Newton [@27:55] - Newton on other compositers. [@29:20] - Wayland protocol purists versus Gnome D-Bus frictions. “Next-generation accessibility architecture” document [@31:03] - Where can people find Arnold? Arnold on GitHub as ‘DataTriny’ Arnold Loubriat on LinkedIn DataTriny on Mastodon [@31:39] Where can people find Matt? Matt Campbell on GitHub AccessKit website. [@31:53] Your host can be found on GitHub. Luuk van der Duim Odilia screen reader atspi crate Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Luuk van der Duim Samples used in interruption: “Vinyl - 45RPM - Start 2” by: day-garwood License: Attribution 3.0 Record Scratch #3 by: musicvision31 License: Creative Commons 0 Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Luuk van der Duim Hosts: Luuk van der Duim

Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems using 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work. [@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion. Talpiot program Wiz, About Wiz [@3:19] - When did you start using Rust? [@3:58] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be? Polars Apache Data Fusion [@5:43] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat. [@6:22] - Have you considered other languages? [@7:02] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with? [@8:23] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub? [@9:22] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion? [@12:13] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties? [@13:23] - What do you mainly do with Rust? Scala Apache Spark Python Ray JNI [@14:38] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use? [@15:18] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job? [@17:44] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using? [@18:41] - How easy for you to recruit developers? [@20:56] - What are resources you recommend for people learning Rust? The Rust book [@25:04] - Do you have any suggestions for someone who’d like to move from web dev to Rust/C/etc.? [@27:01] - What should I do to increase my chances of being hired? Proof of work [@36:11] - How do you evaluate your decision to use Rust? [@37:19] - What are the good and bad parts of Rust and its ecosystem? [@42:05] - Home assignments where candidates fix issues in open source projects [@43:18] - Debuging distributed and high-performance use cases Tracy Frame profiler [@46:35] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code? Claude ChatGPT Deep Seek R1 [@49:45] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust? [@51:43] - What is next for Flarion? Flarion on Linkedin for available jobs. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Gábor Szabó Hosts: Gábor Szabó

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.79 and 1.80 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: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@01:02] - Rust 1.79 [@01:02] - Inline const expressions [@08:33] - Bounds in associated type position [@14:11] - Extending automatic temporary lifetime extension Mara’s blog post on temporary lifetimes [@21:55] - Frame pointers enabled in standard library builds Does omitting the frame pointer really affect performance? [@25:37] - Stabilized APIs [@25:37] - {integer}::unchecked_add [@27:39] - ::len [@29:21] - ::utf8_chunks [@31:21] - CStr::count_bytes [@32:41] - num::NonZero [@36:30] - io::Error::downcast [@36:50] - path::absolute [@38:18] - Changelog deep-dive [@38:31] - Stabilize WASM target features that are in phase 4 and 5 [@39:15] - Document overrides of clone_from() in core/std [@41:46] - Switch to using gitoxide by default for listing files in cargo [@43:03] - Stabilize lint unnameable_types [@44:46] - manual_clamp lint [@45:46] - Rust 1.80 [@46:09] - LazyCell and LazyLock [@53:42] - Checked cfg names and values Detailed blog post on checked cfg [@56:41] - Exclusive ranges in patterns [@58:52] - Stabilized APIs [@59:05] - Vec::::into_flattened ::as_flattened [@1:00:31] - ::trim_ascii [@1:02:06] - NonNull::add and other ptr-like methods [@1:03:41] - impl IntoIterator for Box [@1:05:46] - Option::take_if [@1:07:30] - Ipv4Addr::to_bits [@1:09:10] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:09:25] - x86_64-unknown-linux-none [@1:11:07] - Add size_of and align_of to the prelude [@1:12:34] - Never type fallback flowing into unsafe [@1:17:29] - New panics and aborts in the standard library Abort when OwnedFd is violated Panic if set_extension adds / [@1:20:28] - Restore enum variants in rustdoc for type aliases [@1:21:12] - Change assigning_clones lint to pedantic [@1:22:15] - Turn lints into hard errors [@1:22:49] - env::set_var regression [@1:24:34] - StdoutLock regression [@1:26:00] - Rust 1.80.1 Fixes miscompilation when comparing floats and false positives in the dead_code lint. Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Jon Gjengset Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

Allen Wyma talks with Howard Zuo, CEO at Dataland, a software company that builds AI agents for customer support teams, using 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Introduction to Howard Zuo and Dataland [@2:21] - Supported data sources and plugins [@5:36] - Challenges with data diversity [@9:12] - Focus on customer support teams [@13:02] - Choosing Rust for performance and safety [@18:39] - Comparing Rust to Go [@24:10] - Learning async and debugging [@30:28] - Rust’s ecosystem for data processing [@48:32] - Rust and WebAssembly for UI performance [@57:14] - Closing thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with WindSoilder, a contributor to Nushell, a shell that treats data as structured tables. WindSoilder shares his journey into programming, his work on Nushell, and how Rust has shaped his development experience. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet WindSoilder: Python developer and Rust enthusiast [@04:15] - Discovering Rust and starting with Nushell [@09:30] - Structured data pipelines in Nushell [@15:20] - Using Nushell for CSV, JSON, and HTTP tasks [@20:45] - Integrating Nushell with external commands and plugins [@27:35] - From contributor to core team member [@33:10] - Learning Rust through Nushell: Challenges and rewards [@38:50] - Upcoming features and improvements in Nushell [@44:25] - Advice for new contributors and Rust beginners [@47:40] - Final thoughts and community resources Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma talks with Pete Membrey, Chief Research Officer at Kape Technologies. Pete is a software engineer with a passion for bringing technology to better the world. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@00:00] - Meet Peter Memery, Chief Research Officer at ExpressVPN [@02:21] - Peter’s programming journey and transition to ExpressVPN [@11:15] - Building Lightway: From C to Rust [@24:10] - Why Rust is ideal for high-performance, secure systems [@35:48] - How ExpressVPN collaborates and scales with Rust [@42:00] - Advice for Rust beginners and high-performance programming [@48:38] - ExpressVPN’s contributions to open source and RUSTAsia 2025 [@54:48] - Why Rust is “the way forward” for the industry Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma

Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with Guillaume Gomez, Principal Engineer at Huawei. Guillaume is an IT engineer who is a frequent contributor and reviewer of the Rust language and also participates in other opensource projects such as Servo. 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: [email protected] Timestamps [@0:00] - Meet Guillaume: how he got into Rust and his early contributions [11:09] - Exploring async in Rust [18:09] - GTK and other UI frameworks [28:53] - Discussing GCC’s Rust backend [43:39] - Guillaume’s recent work [46:46] - Concluding discussion Other links RUSTAsia Conf 2025 Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan