Hazel Weakly: Creating tech tools for humans

David Sankel from Adobe and who sits on the C++ Standards Committee discusses efforts to make it easier for Rust and C++ to work together.

Beautiful documentation that's easy to generate is one of Rust's superpowers, but that superpower does not come for free. Guillaume Gomez describes his longstanding involvement in the project, starting in 2013.

David introduces his linker, wild. Along the way, he teaches about how compilers work, what the linker is and how Rust enables him to write major ambitious projects.

AWS and the Rust Foundation are jointly sponsoring an initiative to verify the Rust standard library. Learn why from the initiative's creator, Rahul Kumar.

Listen to Jon Gjengset discuss how to write high quality Rust software and keep it that way.

Nell Shamrell-Harrington speaks about the Rust project governance, the Rust Foundation, maintainer wellbeing and her own career journey.

This interview discusses erosion of human connection in tech and the importance of designing tools that empower individuals and communities. Hear how programming languages like Rust and Haskell are shaping a more hopeful, and perhaps even more wholesome, future.

Dr Caroline Morton has created software that exposes trainee doctors to the cognitive overload of the emergency room. Learn about the technical challenges and why her team turned to the Rust programming language. The episode touches on her personal story. She’s been writing software for 9 years, including 4 years full time, and is still […]

Zeeshan Ali Khan is the maintainer of the zbus crate, a pure Rust implementation of the D-Bus protocol. Zeeshan has been around Linux and embedded/mobile Linux for a long time – even moving to Finland to work for Nokia before the company moved to Windows Phone. The interview starts with creation of zbus—a pure Rust […]

Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the company behind Python’s fastest code formatter: ruff. Astral is also the home of the open source uv and rye projects, which make installing Python packages much faster than they have been with pip. In the interview, Charlie discusses many things, including his own career, building an open […]