Episode 161: 161 JSJ Rust with David Herman

JavaScript Jabber

• Episode: Episode 161: 161 JSJ Rust with David Herman
• Website: JavaScript Jabber
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• Duration: 01:05:05
• Published: 2015-05-27 15:00

02:52 - David Herman Introduction

• Twitter
• Blog
• JavaScript Jabber Episode #54: JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat
• JavaScript Jabber Episode #44: Book Club! Effective JavaScript with David Herman
• Effective JavaScript by David Herman
  • @effectivejs
• TC39
• Mozilla

03:50 - The Rust Programming Language

• [GitHub] rust

06:31 - “Systems Programming Without Fear”

07:38 - High vs Low-level Programming Languages

• Garbage Collection and Deallocation
• Memory Safety
• Performance and Control Over Performance

11:44 - Stack vs Heap Memory

• Etymology of "Foo"
• RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)

16:52 - The Core of Rust

• Ownership
• Type System

24:23 - Segmentation Fault (Seg Faults)

27:51 - How much should programmers care about programming languages?

• Andrew Oppenlander: Rust FFI (Embedding Rust in projects for safe, concurrent, and fast code anywhere.)

32:43 - Concurrency and Multithreaded Programming

35:06 - Rust vs Go

37:58 - servo

40:27 - asm.js

• emscripten

42:19 - Cool Apps Built with Rust

• Skylight
• Wit.ai

45:04 - What hardware architectures does the Rust target?

45:46 - Learning Rust

• Rust for Rubyists by Steve Klabnik

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Special Guest: David Herman.