January 22, 2020

RustFest Interviews Triple Feature: Rust for AAA Game Development; Async Foundations with `async-std`; and Powerful Concurrency Primitives with `crossbeam`

53 minutes

Three more interviews from RustFest 2019: Jake Shadle on using Rust for high-performance game engines at Embark, applying lessons learned from working on EA DICE’s Frostbite engine; Yoshua Wuyts on async-std and Rust’s async ecosystem; and Stjepan Glavina on crossbeam, Rust’s foundational library for powerful concurrency primitives.

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

[@00:00] Part 1: Game Development @ Embark Studios w/ Jake Shadle

[@01:25] - What is yours (and Embark’s) background in game development?

[@02:14] - What is the relevance of the Frostbite engine and what is your experience with it?

[@04:15] - What makes you think that Rust as a language is suitable for game development?

[@06:13] - How is parallelism employed in a game engine on the scale of Frostbite?

[@07:07] - Where is the Rust library ecosystem lacking for your use case, and what crates are you making use of?

[@11:13] - Why is Embark interested in WebAssembly?

[@14:20] - How can someone get in touch or learn more about Embark?

embark.dev

Inside Rust at Embark

[@15:09] Part 2: async-std w/ Yoshua Wuyts

[@15:48] - How much of the Rust standard library is async-std intended to emulate?

[@17:12] - Is there anything from async-std that ought to be upstreamed into the standard library?

[@19:20] - Does async-std run into any conflicts with the types or traits defined in futures-rs or the standard library?

[@22:21] - How complete or incomplete is Rust’s async ecosystem and async language support?

async-trait: a procedural macro for providing async trait methods on stable Rust

[@26:21] - How close is async-std to being a drop-in replacement for the standard library?

[@28:32] - What’s next for the development of async-std?

[@30:07] - With the advent of async-std version 1.0, what would an eventual 2.0 release look like?

[@32:09] - Who is using async-std?

[@32:54] - How can someone get in touch or get involved?

async.rs

github.com/async-rs

[@34:02] Part 3: crossbeam w/ Stjepan Glavina

[@34:29] - What is crossbeam and what is its history?

[@36:41] - What is epoch-based garbage collection, and why would a Rust user want to use it?

[@38:17] - How does epoch-based garbage collection compare to std::sync::Arc?

[@41:30] - What is your background in concurrent programming?

[@42:59] - How do crossbeam’s channels compare to those in the standard library?

[@44:33] - How much research was involved in writing crossbeam?

[@45:35] - Do crossbeam’s channels provide a selection interface?

[@46:34] - What other primitives does crossbeam provide?

[@48:37] - How confident are you in the correctness of crossbeam’s implementation?

[@49:46] - How is crossbeam related to rayon and async-std?

[@51:53] - What’s next for crossbeam?

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Zoran Zaric

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Ben Striegel, Zoran Zaric

Hosts: Ben Striegel

...more

View all episodes

By Rustacean Station

4.9

6363 ratings

January 22, 2020

RustFest Interviews Triple Feature: Rust for AAA Game Development; Async Foundations with `async-std`; and Powerful Concurrency Primitives with `crossbeam`

53 minutes

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

[@00:00] Part 1: Game Development @ Embark Studios w/ Jake Shadle

[@01:25] - What is yours (and Embark’s) background in game development?

[@02:14] - What is the relevance of the Frostbite engine and what is your experience with it?

[@04:15] - What makes you think that Rust as a language is suitable for game development?

[@06:13] - How is parallelism employed in a game engine on the scale of Frostbite?

[@07:07] - Where is the Rust library ecosystem lacking for your use case, and what crates are you making use of?

[@11:13] - Why is Embark interested in WebAssembly?

[@14:20] - How can someone get in touch or learn more about Embark?

embark.dev

Inside Rust at Embark

[@15:09] Part 2: async-std w/ Yoshua Wuyts

[@15:48] - How much of the Rust standard library is async-std intended to emulate?

[@17:12] - Is there anything from async-std that ought to be upstreamed into the standard library?

[@19:20] - Does async-std run into any conflicts with the types or traits defined in futures-rs or the standard library?

[@22:21] - How complete or incomplete is Rust’s async ecosystem and async language support?

async-trait: a procedural macro for providing async trait methods on stable Rust

[@26:21] - How close is async-std to being a drop-in replacement for the standard library?

[@28:32] - What’s next for the development of async-std?

[@30:07] - With the advent of async-std version 1.0, what would an eventual 2.0 release look like?

[@32:09] - Who is using async-std?

[@32:54] - How can someone get in touch or get involved?

async.rs

github.com/async-rs

[@34:02] Part 3: crossbeam w/ Stjepan Glavina

[@34:29] - What is crossbeam and what is its history?

[@36:41] - What is epoch-based garbage collection, and why would a Rust user want to use it?

[@38:17] - How does epoch-based garbage collection compare to std::sync::Arc?

[@41:30] - What is your background in concurrent programming?

[@42:59] - How do crossbeam’s channels compare to those in the standard library?

[@44:33] - How much research was involved in writing crossbeam?

[@45:35] - Do crossbeam’s channels provide a selection interface?

[@46:34] - What other primitives does crossbeam provide?

[@48:37] - How confident are you in the correctness of crossbeam’s implementation?

[@49:46] - How is crossbeam related to rayon and async-std?

[@51:53] - What’s next for crossbeam?

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Zoran Zaric

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Ben Striegel, Zoran Zaric

Hosts: Ben Striegel

...more

More shows like Rustacean Station

View all

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

272 Listeners

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

290 Listeners

Software Engineering Daily

622 Listeners

Talk Python To Me

584 Listeners

Python Bytes

215 Listeners

Late Night Linux

164 Listeners

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

986 Listeners

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

189 Listeners

2.5 Admins

98 Listeners

Software Unscripted

29 Listeners

Oxide and Friends

66 Listeners

Developer Voices

30 Listeners

Rust in Production

26 Listeners

Self-Directed Research

15 Listeners

The Pragmatic Engineer

72 Listeners

Share RustFest Interviews Triple Feature: Rust for AAA Game Development; Async Foundations with `async-std`; and Powerful Concurrency Primitives with `crossbeam`

Sign up to save your podcasts

RustFest Interviews Triple Feature: Rust for AAA Game Development; Async Foundations with `async-std`; and Powerful Concurrency Primitives with `crossbeam`

RustFest Interviews Triple Feature: Rust for AAA Game Development; Async Foundations with `async-std`; and Powerful Concurrency Primitives with `crossbeam`

More shows like Rustacean Station

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Software Engineering Daily

Talk Python To Me

Python Bytes

Late Night Linux

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

2.5 Admins

Software Unscripted

Oxide and Friends

Developer Voices

Rust in Production

Self-Directed Research

The Pragmatic Engineer