November 2022 Q&A

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/01V-0YkEd0M. Questions and answers session from November, 2022.

Timestamps

[@0:00:00] Introduction [@0:02:39] Managing/splitting your time [@0:08:10] Picking dependencies [@0:17:40] Justifying working for Amazon [@0:22:30] Moving to full-time open-source/teaching [@0:27:05] Beginner-friendly Rust projects [@0:32:50] WebAssembly [@0:34:58] Why vim? [@0:41:25] What would you remove from Rust? [@0:45:15] Increasing Rust complexity [@0:52:55] Copilot [@1:00:00] Rust in the Linux kernel [@1:02:30] Management consulting [@1:05:15] NixOS [@1:07:45] Keeping notes [@1:25:10] Playing the piano [@1:31:40] Advice for undergrads applying for grad school [@1:38:50] Is Rust adoption accelerating? [@1:44:10] Rust in critical systems [@1:46:25] Favorite podcasts [@1:52:25] Moving from LA [@2:07:50] Non-technical books [@2:10:45] Allocators in Rust [@2:13:45] Nervous starting as a software engineer [@2:20:55] Aside: camera cables [@2:21:45] Alternate careers [@2:24:20] Ensemble/mob/pair programming [@2:27:40] Rust debugger [@2:32:15] Why did you continue in academia after undergrad? [@2:40:40] Parasocial relationships [@2:43:12] Moving to Rust jobs from jobs in other langs [@2:46:10] Why MIT? [@2:50:00] Elon Musk and Twitter [@2:54:50] Challenges in developer experience tooling [@2:59:13] Interesting problems in databases [@3:01:25] Actors vs. shared memory [@3:03:45] Do PhD if want to join industry? [@3:05:55] Camera side-by-side