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February 27, 2026Hopp with Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos
Allen Wyma talks with Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos, creators of Hopp, a tool that enables remote pair programming sessions. Hopp is built with Tauri and Rust, and is open source.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@0:00] - Meet Costa Alexoglou and Iason Paraskevopoulos

[@3:12] - The problem with existing tools: high latency and poor quality

[@7:28] - Why Tauri was chosen (and its limitations)

[@10:28] - Moving from WebKit to a custom Rust WebRTC implementation

[@14:34] - How Hopp handles ultra-low latency screen sharing

[@22:50] - Technical deep dive: Bypassing browser limitations on macOS

[@31:18] - Roadmap: Migrating fully to Rust and future integrations

[@34:25] - Linux support challenges and distribution

[@41:03] - Using iced for Rust-based UI rendering

[@42:14] - Closing thoughts
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
43min
January 23, 2026What's New in the Rust 2024 Edition
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the Rust 2024
Edition.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@03:05] - RPIT lifetime capture rules

[@08:00] - let chains in if and while
if let temporary scope

Mara’s post on “super let”

Tail expression temporary scope

[@19:15] - Match ergonomics reservations

[@24:49] - Unsafe extern blocks

[@29:15] - Unsafe attributes

[@32:03] - unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn warning

[@34:51] - Disallow references to static mut

[@39:20] - Never type fallback change

[@43:33] - Macro Fragment Specifiers

[@47:47] - gen keyword

[@49:36] - Changes to the prelude

[@50:32] - Add IntoIterator for Box<[T]>

[@56:03] - Newly unsafe functions

[@58:51] - Rust-version aware Cargo resolver

[@1:03:03] - Cargo table and key name consistency

[@1:03:57] - Reject unused inherited default-features

[@1:05:37] - Rustdoc combined doctests

[@1:07:13] - Rustdoc nested include! change

[@1:09:19] - The rustfmt style edition
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: synchis
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
...more
1h 14min
January 22, 2026What's New in Rust 1.88 through 1.90
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.88 through 1.90 releases of Rust.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@00:26] - Rust 1.88
[@00:26] - Let chains
The if let temporary scope

[@09:09] - Naked functions

[@11:55] - Boolean configuration

[@14:15] - Cargo automatic cache cleaning

[@17:52] - Stabilized APIs
[@17:52] - hint::select_unpredictable

[@21:16] - <[T]>::as_chunks

[@22:25] - Default for *const T

[@23:13] - HashMap::extract_if

[@23:43] - More metadata from Span

[@24:48] - Changelog deep-dive
[@24:48] - De-stabilize #[bench]

[@26:55] - --no-capture

[@28:31] - Rust 1.89
[@28:40] - Explicitly inferred arguments to const generics

[@30:14] - Mismatched lifetime syntaxes lint

[@35:29] - More x86 target features

[@36:33] - Cross-compiled doctests

[@38:31] - i128 and u128 in extern "C" functions

[@40:38] - Demoting x86_64-apple-darwin to Tier 2
Platform support policy

[@42:18] - Standards Compliant C ABI on wasm32-unknown-unknown
More about the ABI changes

[@46:05] - Stabilized APIs
[@46:05] - File::lock

[@48:34] - Changelog deep-dive
[@48:40] - aarch64 frame pointers
Why do frame pointers matter?

[@49:59] - Allow storing format_args! in variable
Behind the scenes of format_args!

[@51:38] - rustdoc sidebar on mobile

[@52:14] - Rust 1.90
[@52:14] - LLD is now the default linker on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
PR with lots of linked resources

rustc performance diff with lld

[@1:01:26] - Cargo adds native support for workspace publishing

[@1:03:03] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:03:26] - u{n}::saturating_sub_signed

[@1:04:20] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:04:20] - home_dir fall back if HOME is set but empty

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: synchis
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
...more
1h 8min
January 22, 2026What's New in Rust 1.85 through 1.87
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.85 through 1.88 releases of Rust.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@01:11] - Rust 1.85
[@02:05] - async closures
RFC 3668

Stabilization report

[@07:45] - Hiding trait implementations from diagnostics

[@09:43] - FromIterator and Extend for tuples

[@12:10] - Updates to std::env::home_dir()
Deprecation discussion

Deprecation PR

Originally abandoned fix

Undeprecation

[@15:19] - Stabilized APIs
[@15:30] - number::midpoint

[@16:18] - Waker::noop

[@17:49] - ptr::fn_addr_eq

[@20:10] - Changelog deep-dive
[@20:10] - De-duplicate and improve definition of c_char

[@22:56] - More constification

[@23:51] - Rust 1.85.1
[@24:46] - Rust 1.86
[@25:24] - Trait upcasting

[@30:49] - HashMaps and slices now support indexing multiple elements mutably

[@33:50] - Allow safe functions to be marked with the #[target_feature] attribute

[@36:21] - Debug assertions that pointers are non-null when required for soundness

[@39:48] - Make missing_abi lint warn by default

[@40:55] - Target deprecation warning for 1.87.0

[@42:25] - Stabilized APIs
[@42:25] - {float}::next_up

[@44:55] - Vec::pop_if

[@46:41] - Changelog deep-dive
[@46:41] - Changing -O to opt-level=3

[@47:47] - Optimized rustc binaries for aarch64

[@49:04] - Deprecate cargo --token

[@49:43] - No more “did you mean” in Cargo

[@50:14] - Sans-serif in rustdoc

[@50:45] - Rust 1.87
[@51:27] - Anonymous pipes

[@53:06] - Safe architecture intrinsics
Update the standard library to Rust 2024

[@55:00] - asm! jumps to Rust code

[@57:06] - Precise capturing in impl Trait in trait definitions
The Captures “trick”

Talk on impl Trait

[@58:45] - Stabilized APIs
[@58:45] - Vec::extract_if

[@1:00:13] - <[T]>::split_off

[@1:01:47] - OsStr::display

[@1:03:40] - ::cast_signed

[@1:04:41] - ::is_multiple_of

[@1:05:31] - ::unbounded_shl

[@1:06:20] - TryFrom> for String

[@1:06:46] - Box>::write

[@1:08:23] - String::extend_from_within

[@1:07:46] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:07:46] - Actually un-deprecate home_dir

[@1:10:41] - Cargo SBOM support (RFC 3553)

[@1:11:48] - More Cargo ANSI sequences

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: synchis
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
...more
1h 15min
October 29, 2025What's New in Rust 1.81 through 1.84
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.81 through 1.84 releases of Rust.
This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on
2025-10-26, which you can still
watch.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@01:58] - Rust 1.81
[@02:05] - core::error::Error
Tracking issue for generic member access

build-std Rust project goal

[@08:27] - New sort implementations
PR implementing the change

Repo with the research

[@10:49] - #[expect(lint)]

[@14:37] - Lint reasons

[@16:18] - Stabilized APIs
[@16:34] - Duration::abs_diff

[@17:25] - hint::assert_unchecked

[@22:36] - fs::exists

[@25:37] - Compatibility notes
[@20:40] - Split panic hook and panic handler arguments

[@23:00] - Abort on uncaught panics in extern "C" functions

[@27:01] - WASI 0.1 target naming changed

[@30:10] - Fix for CVE-2024-43402
CVE announcement

[@33:39] - Rust 1.82
[@33:39] - cargo info

[@35:06] - Apple target promotions
Platform support tiers

[@40:10] - Precise capturing use<..> syntax
The Captures “trick”

Talk on impl Trait

[@47:24] - Native syntax for creating a raw pointer
Pointers Are Complicated

Pointers Are Complicated II

Pointers Are Complicated III

[@53:43] - Safe items with unsafe extern

[@59:32] - Unsafe attributes

[@1:03:44] - Omitting empty types in pattern matching
The never type

[@1:11:33] - Floating-point NaN semantics and const

[@1:17:41] - Constants as assembly immediates

[@1:19:06] - Safely addressing unsafe statics

[@1:22:56] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:23:03] - thread::Builder::spawn_unchecked

[@1:25:10] - Working with MaybeUninit

[@1:25:48] - Exposed SIMD intrinsics

[@1:26:14] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:26:26] - Rewrite binary search implementation

[@1:27:30] - Rust 1.83
[@1:27:55] - New const capabilities

[@1:31:50] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:32:06] - New io::ErrorKind variants

[@1:33:10] - Option::get_or_insert_default

[@1:34:56] - char::MIN

[@1:35:48] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:35:48] - Unicode 16 Emoji

[@1:39:51] - Sysroot trim-paths

[@1:41:31] - cargo update informs of outdated versions

[@1:42:43] - cargo --timings dark mode

[@1:43:15] - Checksum-based freshness in Cargo nightly

[@1:44:26] - Rust 1.84
[@1:44:40] - Cargo considers Rust version for dependency version selection

[@1:49:03] - Migration to the new trait solver begins

[@1:51:47] - Strict provenance APIs
Pointers Are Complicated

Pointers Are Complicated II

Pointers Are Complicated III

Rust has provenance

Gankra’s write-up on raw pointer design

Strict provenance APIs tracking issue

[@1:57:53] - Stabilized APIs
[@1:57:58] - ::isqrt

[@1:58:15] - core::ptr::dangling

[@1:59:15] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:59:15] - Include Cargo.lock in published crates

[@2:00:12] - wasm32-wasi target removed

[@2:01:06] - &raw *invalid_ptr is fine

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: synchis
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
...more
2h 4min
June 28, 2025Dioxus with Jonathan Kelley
Allen Wyma talks with Jonathan Kelley, creator of Dioxus, a framework for building web, mobile, and desktop apps with a single Rust codebase.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@00:00] - Meet Jonathan Kelley, Creator of Dioxus

[@01:55] - The Origin & Core Technology of Dioxus

[@24:45] - Hot Reloading for a Faster Workflow

[@30:20] - The Road to a Stable 1.0 Release

[@36:36] - The Future Vision: Full-Stack, Native APIs, and Beyond

[@42:55] - Collaboration within the Rust UI Ecosystem
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
1h
June 20, 2025Malachite with Adi Seredinschi
Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented in Rust.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems

[@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint

[@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase

[@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite

[@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods

[@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites

[@40:42] - Closing thoughts
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
43min
June 14, 2025Rust at Work - conversation with Eli Shalom and Igal Tabachnik of Eureka Labs
In this episode, host Gábor Szabó talks to Eli Shalom, Eureka Labs’ Co-Founder and CTO, and Senior Software Engineer Igal Tabachnik about how Rust is powering infrastructure at Eureka Labs - a blockchain company operating in a low-latency, high-throughput environment.
Eureka Labs’ work focuses on advancing the logic of block construction to support more efficient execution and expand the functionality that can be packed into each block’s limited timeframe.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.

[@1:14] - Eli Shalom Co-Founder and CTO of Eureka Labs.

[@2:20] - Igal Tabachnik Senior Software Engineer.
Scala

[@4:00] - About Eureka Labs and the “block builder”.
Blockchain

Ethereum Networks

[@7:10] - What is blockchain? What is block building?
Smart contract

Smart contracts on Ethereum

NP-Hard problem

[@15:00] - Why Rust?
reth

[@25:45] - Ethereum implementation and deployment
Ethereum specs and standards

EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposals

[@35:06] - How did you get started with Rust?
Scala

Haskell

functional programming

virtual threads / green threads / tokio

Eq trait

F#

Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain talk by Runar Bjarnason.

[@48:40] - How do you select the crates you use?
Elm

[@55:03] - How much do you use AI? Which AI tools do you use?
Claude Code

Amp of Sourcegraph

GitHub Co-pilot

ChatGPT

LLMs

Perlexity

JetBrains

[@1:04:05] - What should people do in order to be a better candidate for a job at your company?
Vibe coding

[@1:08:30] - Things to take into account when selecting a language

[@1:10:48] - Training and mentoring new developers
Redis

Learning Rust: The Rust Book.

Live coding streams by Jon Gjengset.

Rust for Rustaceans book by Jon Gjengset.

[@1:16:00] - Final notes
Igal can be contacted on X/twitter @hmemcpy or via email at [email protected]

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Gábor Szabó
Hosts: Gábor Szabó
...more
1h 19min
May 31, 2025SWC with DongYoon Kang
Allen Wyma talks with DongYoon Kang aka kdy, creator of SWC, a Rust-based platform for creating fast developer tools. It’s used in existing projects such as Next.js, Parcel, and Deno.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps
[@0:00] - Meet DongYoon Kang, creator of SWC, the Rust-based platform for the Web

[@1:54] - SWC creation & background

[@5:00] - Adoption by Deno, Next.js, and others

[@8:45] - Learning Rust and building SWC

[@11:14] - Community contributions and team structure

[@14:48] - Performance improvements with Chili

[@17:57] - SWC modules and supported languages

[@20:28] - Exploring Dart support

[@21:37] - Future plans for SWC
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
...more
25min
May 29, 2025AccessKit with Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat
With AccessKit, Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat took on the ambitious task of abstracting over
the accessibility APIs of several target OS’ to offer toolkit providers one unified way to make their UIs accessible across platforms.
This interview was recorded live at RustWeek 2025 with your host Luuk van der Duim.
Contributing to Rustacean Station
Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor!
Twitter: @rustaceanfm

Discord: Rustacean Station

Github: @rustacean-station

Email: [email protected]
Timestamps & referenced resources
[@1:11] - Introducing Matt and Arnold.

[@1:45] - “What are you working on?”

[@2:00] - “What does it offer?”

[@2:28] - “Who would use AccessKit?”

[@2:51] - AccessKit bindings in languages besides Rust.

[@3:14] - Unifying accessibility protocols.

[@4:47] - AccessKit’s API.

[@6:58] - AccessKit tree concepts.

[@8:47] - When Arnold got involved.

[@9:08] - 6000 lines of code to find Matt.

[@12:56] - Matt’s history with Windows and Microsoft.

[@14:00] - How Quorum relates to AccessKit,
Quorum

[@15:52] - Challenges Quorum UI development faced.

[@18:12] - Arnold and Matt on the necessity for back-end testing, Android, iOS - Linux.

[@21:45] - On Newton and its Chromium relation.
Newton

[@27:55] - Newton on other compositers.

[@29:20] - Wayland protocol purists versus Gnome D-Bus frictions.
“Next-generation accessibility architecture” document

[@31:03] - Where can people find Arnold?
Arnold on GitHub as ‘DataTriny’

Arnold Loubriat on LinkedIn

DataTriny on Mastodon

[@31:39] Where can people find Matt?
Matt Campbell on GitHub

AccessKit website.

[@31:53] Your host can be found on GitHub.
Luuk van der Duim

Odilia screen reader

atspi crate

Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Luuk van der Duim
Samples used in interruption:
“Vinyl - 45RPM - Start 2”
by: day-garwood
License: Attribution 3.0

Record Scratch #3
by: musicvision31
License: Creative Commons 0
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Luuk van der Duim
Hosts: Luuk van der Duim
...more
33min

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