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Questions and answers session from August, 2020.
Timestamps
[@00:00:00] Introduction
[@00:02:38] Your shell prompt?
[@00:02:56] Swift vs Rust?
[@00:03:31] Understanding difficult concepts
[@00:03:56] Is Rust too complex?
[@00:05:04] Dvorak and Colemak
[@00:05:26] GPT-3
[@00:07:10] Higher-ranked trait bounds
[@00:07:54] Protocol parsers
[@00:09:09] GPU programming
[@00:10:46] Haskell
[@00:11:08] Why Rust over C++/C?
[@00:12:26] Master’s thesis
[@00:13:13] tokio/async-std
[@00:15:26] Debuggers
[@00:15:42] Data structures and algorithms
[@00:16:05] Working before going back to school
[@00:16:18] Object-oriented programming
[@00:16:55] Crate review streams
[@00:17:25] How did you pick your area?
[@00:18:17] WebAssembly
[@00:18:44] Plans after graduating?
[@00:19:23] Macros over generics?
[@00:20:02] Competitive programming
[@00:20:37] Reading papers on screens
[@00:21:40] Coolest upcoming feature
[@00:23:41] Ethics in ML
[@00:25:03] Is Rust general-purpose?
[@00:26:17] Rust networking
[@00:26:40] C++ vs Go
[@00:27:14] Second favorite language
[@00:27:55] Fiction and “faction”
[@00:28:13] Musical instruments
[@00:28:48] Formal languages
[@00:30:01] Distributed systems stream
[@00:30:20] Favorite flavor of bagel
[@00:30:42] Handling millions of connections
[@00:32:17] Is higher education necessary?
[@00:33:28] Self-referential structs
[@00:34:13] SIMD in Noria
[@00:34:45] The tracing crate
[@00:35:32] Game development
[@00:36:35] Beautiful CS ideas
[@00:37:51] When do you graduate?
[@00:38:22] Pronouncing your name
[@00:38:43] Memory orderings
[@00:39:34] When did you start with Rust?
[@00:39:55] What do you use for drawing?
[@00:40:18] Crust of Rust Schedule
[@00:40:36] “Rewrite in Rust” memes
[@00:42:18] Developing a database
[@00:42:55] Is Big Tech too big?
[@00:44:07] async fn in traits
[@00:45:32] Functional programming
[@00:45:43] Blockchains
[@00:46:22] Favorite Rust crate
[@00:46:42] Recommended CS Books
[@00:48:41] Quantum computing
[@00:49:05] Do you play video games?
[@00:50:32] Getting into MIT
[@00:51:08] Thank for the thank yous!
[@00:51:45] Streaming topics
[@00:52:15] What YouTubers do you watch?
[@00:54:20] Providing async and sync APIs
[@00:54:48] Next steps for Noria
[@00:56:13] Moving to LA
[@00:56:55] Advice to Rust beginners
[@00:57:24] Being good at maths
[@00:58:00] Your next job?
[@00:58:11] Imposter syndrome
[@00:59:27] “jonhoo”
[@00:59:47] Publishing to graduate
[@01:00:08] Low-level resources
[@01:01:15] Memory ordering stream
[@01:01:27] Rust over Go
[@01:01:45] Debugging distributed code
[@01:03:31] Covariance
[@01:04:14] Garbage collection
[@01:04:59] Web development in Rust
[@01:05:20] Lifetimes in other languages
[@01:06:14] Things in Rust you dislike
[@01:07:36] Missing Rust libraries
[@01:09:20] Learning async/await
[@01:09:55] Background before college
[@01:10:30] Favorite board game
[@01:11:16] Standardized testing
[@01:12:26] Other ways to learn Rust
[@01:13:06] Working as a student
[@01:13:46] Noria in production
[@01:14:05] Publishing your first crate
[@01:14:25] Working with Malte
[@01:14:52] Maths in CS
[@01:15:14] Teaching computer science
[@01:16:35] Favorite animal
[@01:17:04] How did you choose your lab?
[@01:17:58] Writing good documentation
[@01:19:26] What is Covariance?
[@01:19:57] What’s for dinner?
[@01:20:11] RISC-V
[@01:20:32] Epoch-based GC
[@01:21:30] actix
[@01:21:49] From ML to HPC
[@01:22:11] Red flags for Rust FFI
[@01:23:46] Implementing a protocol
[@01:24:02] Fully understanding Rust
[@01:24:43] Can you make a Rust course?
[@01:25:09] Windows window managers
[@01:25:55] Documentation in LaTeX
[@01:26:24] Finding good papers
[@01:27:15] Lack of motivation
[@01:29:11] C and MPI
[@01:30:05] Rust and maths
[@01:30:38] if let chains
[@01:31:08] More FFI red flags
[@01:31:30] Learning GPU in Rust
[@01:32:06] Laptop recommendations
[@01:32:33] PC specifications
[@01:33:13] Time management
[@01:34:36] Teaching with Rust
[@01:35:30] Big CS conferences?
[@01:36:19] Rust for ML
[@01:37:53] AsyncDrop
[@01:39:49] Missing Semester class
[@01:40:25] Better docs than rustdoc
[@01:40:48] Dotfiles on GitHub
[@01:41:37] What to work on?
[@01:42:39] Pi vs Tau
[@01:43:05] Solution you’re proud of
[@01:44:00] Favorite restaurant
[@01:44:36] The insight of Pin
[@01:45:06] More streams like this?
[@01:45:17] Embedded Rust
[@01:45:28] Distributed systems resources
[@01:46:08] Code style and rustfmt
[@01:48:01] Grad school opportunity cost
[@01:50:03] Stagnated rustc PR
[@01:50:59] Non-programming hobbies
[@01:52:11] Rust in 10 years
[@01:53:24] Wayland in OBS
[@01:54:03] npm_modules vs Rust crates
[@01:55:44] Dark-mode GitHub
[@01:56:31] Advice to an 18-year old
[@01:57:14] Arguing for Rust adoption
[@01:59:00] What do you wish you knew before PhD
[@02:00:07] Small Rust crates you like
[@02:00:32] Getting started with Rust OSS
[@02:00:48] Taking notes
[@02:01:40] WSL2
[@02:02:22] Rust as an introductory language
[@02:03:13] CS electives at university
[@02:04:07] Breaking into Rust jobs
[@02:04:33] What would you change in Rust?
[@02:05:40] What drew you to Rust?
[@02:06:07] Which Linux distro?
[@02:06:27] Industries that benefit from Rust
[@02:07:38] DuckDuckGo
[@02:07:58] Plotting
[@02:09:00] Favorite dessert
[@02:09:30] Exciting nightly features
[@02:10:28] Programming beverage
[@02:10:57] Made it to the end
