May 2024 Q&A

Also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCEj3F3itc. Questions and answers session from May, 2024.

Link list

Discord: https://discord.jonhoo.eu LogLog Games article: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ Rust API Guidelines: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/ Rust Design Patterns Book: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/ Data Latam podcast: https://www.datalatam.com/ Engineering blogs: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/ https://without.boats/ https://danluu.com/ https://docs.rs/dtolnay/ https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ https://noidea.dog/glue https://matklad.github.io/ https://www.ralfj.de/blog/ https://faultlore.com/blah/ https://fasterthanli.me/articles https://www.evanmiller.org/ https://blog.regehr.org/

Timestamps

[@0:00:00] Introduction [@0:03:27] Decrusting rust-analyzer [@0:07:34] Unified approach to error handling in Rust [@0:14:35] What don’t you like about Rust? [@0:26:15] How to gain experience in Rust [@0:32:03] The recent loglog.games article about the bad Rust gamedev experience [@0:38:02] Struggles with a lack of motivation/focus/drive [@0:45:52] Rust for web development [@0:47:56] How are you doing [@0:54:57] Norway: upsides/downsides compared to the US [@1:06:41] How you stay focused and productive during the day [@1:19:01] Voting + tea + cat break [@1:22:44] Best practices in setting up a Rust project [@1:28:23] Unexpectedly high ROI things you’ve bought/started doing [@1:39:04] Getting a junior job in system programming with Rust [@1:42:09] Deciding to use async rust or not [@1:45:23] Design patterns that are specific to Rust [@1:48:01] Decrusting Leptos/BevyECS? [@1:48:57] Favorite YouTube channels [@1:49:46] https://www.youtube.com/@BBCArchive [@1:50:30] https://www.youtube.com/@CGPGrey [@1:50:54] https://www.youtube.com/@danielthrasher [@1:51:04] https://www.youtube.com/@everyframeapainting [@1:51:25] https://www.youtube.com/@IanHubert2 [@1:51:53] https://www.youtube.com/@JosephAndersonChannel [@1:52:08] https://www.youtube.com/@razbuten [@1:52:22] https://www.youtube.com/@SummoningSalt [@1:52:36] https://www.youtube.com/@MinutePhysics [@1:52:46] https://www.youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif [@1:52:53] https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile [@1:52:58] https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium [@1:53:12] https://www.youtube.com/@ozzymanreviews [@1:53:16] https://www.youtube.com/@RyanGeorge [@1:53:54] https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo [@1:54:02] https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers [@1:54:09] https://www.youtube.com/@theslowmoguys [@1:54:20] https://www.youtube.com/@Vsauce [@1:54:43] Code review style livestreams [@2:01:00] Do you still program at your job or is it mainly management? [@2:10:49] Do you do any workouts/exercises? [@2:14:54] A crate you don’t have the use for, but wish you did [@2:16:52] Rust for Data Engineering [@2:21:58] Voting time [@2:25:30] Engineering blogs to follow [@2:34:42] The most exiting company that is using Rust [@2:37:50] Enums or traits [@2:42:12] Crust of Rust on intrinsics/SIMD [@2:42:55] Frameworks for making non-web (RPC) services [@2:45:33] Organizing your daily work [@2:48:03] Quick-fire answers