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The Way of the Crab
By Ecton and ToggleBitTechnology
The Way of the Crab episodes
- Episode 12: Code reuse could lead to bugsNotes
- 00:26: Wordle
- Nerdle
- 08:36: Programming language design discussions
- Type and Effect Systems
- Crumb
- YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language™)
- #!
- Cargo Script
- 28:11: Optimizing our user interfaces
- Gooey
- Anathema
- Kludgine
- tracing
- Jaeger
- Archer: A simple clone of Jaeger in Rust
- Arch Wiki: .NET
- 39:15: Ecton's recent work on BonsaiDb
- 42:50: Keeping our systems up to date
- rustup
- 44:40: Rust 1.72
- unstable feature doc_auto_cfg
- Rust 1.62: Optimized Mutexes
- parking_lot
- flume
- 55:38: What else have we been up to?
- Doom Guy
- Masters of Doom
- Hyperthymesia
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
1 hr 2 min - Episode 11: Always check your inputs and outputsNotes
- 00:18 What has Ecton been up to?
- Erlang
- Elixir
- BEAM
- Bud
- nom
- Crafting Interpreters
- 12:50 What has ToggleBit been up to?
- 17:50 Do we have practices we follow when releasing code?
- 21:35 A discussion of types arising from a story of an ash cloud
- Typestates in The Embedded Rust Book: Static
Guarantees.- 30:00 Did our early development experiences become our preferred experiences?
- REALbasic / Xojo
- "The Dragon Book" (Compilers: Principles, Technique, and Tools)
- Rhai
- Previewing Bud(Lang)
- 39:45 What is our current vision of the game user interface?
- Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
54 min - Episode 10: They're making a programming language now?!Notes
- 00:00:20 What has Ecton been up to?
- Gooey
- wgpu
- winit
- 00:01:20 What has ToggleBit been up to? (Removing Lifetimes)
- Arc
- Kludgine
- wgpu::RenderPass
- "this is a known limitation that will be removed in the future"
- Trait Objects
- 00:06:55 Writing public test utilities?
- 00:09:14 What is our podcast recording setup?
- Audacity
- 00:15:00 Pressure cooker fun
- Kristoff
- Zig
- 00:17:50 Optimizing [Anathema]
- slotmap
- alot
- miri
- Stacked Borrows
- Tree Borrows
- parking_lot::RwLock::upgradable_read
- Rust Atomics and Locks
- 00:35:00 Ask us questions! (Links at the bottom of the notes)
- 00:38:30 Web frameworks in Rust
- yew
- axum
- tide
- warp
- actix-web
- Rocket
- BonsaiDb
- Rust Programming Language (The Book)
- Dining Philosophers
- 00:51:50 Floating point vs Integer math for 2D graphics
- Epsilon
- 01:05:40 How is Gooey going to handle animations?
- Easings.net
- 01:10:40 FlexBox vs alternative layout systems?
- Let's build a browser engine!
- Cassowary
- RectCut
- taffy
- Flutter's Rendering Pipeline
- 01:26:10 Is Gooey something we want to build?
- cosmic_text::Editor
- cosmic_text::ViEditor
(not currently listed on docs.rs)We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
1 hr 46 min - Episode 9: Did you start Steam?Notes
- 00:17 What has Ecton been up to?
- Kludgine
- caffeine-ng
- bevy
- wgpu
- cosmic-text
- glyphon
- wgpu: Encapsulating Graphics Work
- 05:40 What has Togglebit been up to?
- Play position PR
- Anathema
- crossterm
- llvm-cov-pretty
- 13:50 Vacationing with or without a laptop
- 20:48 What are our favorite flavors of ice cream?
- 21:55 What are we going to start working on first?
- Multi-user Dungeon
- rayon
- Gooey
- 30:53 Game monetization
- 1,000 True Fans
- 37:33 Optimizing time-to-play
- 43:55 How do we want to start organizing our work?
- 50:45 Why is Ecton building all these things?
- BonsaiDb
- Microsoft Excel Add-in for EVE Online
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
57 min - Episode 8: Beware of spidersNotes
- 00:55 What has Ecton been up to?
- CityHasher
- CRC
- Gooey
- wgpu
- winit
- Kludgine
- glyphon
- 06:30 What has Togglebit been up?
- Masters of Doom
- Anathema
- Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust
- 21:06 How do we approach planning/project management?
- 26:50 What are the "worst" projects we worked on?
- Domain Specific Language
- 37:15 Diving into wgpu
- rend3
- Fyrox
- 53:05 How do we approach learning new concepts and codebases?
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
57 min - Episode 7: Shoehorning unsafe codeNotes
- 00:19: What has Ecton been working on?
- Gooey
- The Reddit blackout explained
- Lemmy
- Usenet
- ActivityPub
- Mastodon
- kbin
- 04:49: What has ToggleBit been working on?
- Anathema
- BonsaiDb
- wgpu
- 08:49: User experience testing / watching other people use your software
- ToggleBit's Twitch Stream
- 14:58: How do we approach benchmarking?
- Ecton's saga of benchmark woes
- BonsaiDb storage rewrite tracking issue
- Techempower Web Benchmarks
- justjson
- 29:39: How do we organize our Rust projects?
- Embedded Cargo.toml aka "Cargo Script"
- 39:38: Do we write a lot of unsafe code?
- Rustonomicon
- Miri
- 49:45: super_cool_joey from Discord asks: Are we going to open source our
project?We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
55 min - Episode 6: Making sure the happy path is happy
Ecton and ToggleBit meet for the sixth episode of The Way of the Crab. In this
episode, they discuss what they've been working on, their unit testingphilosophies, and how they evaluate crates. And most importantly... they avoiddiscussing their game project for another episode!- 01:02: Updating BonsaiDb dependencies
- fabruic - PR mentioned
- quinn
- futures::select!()/futures::select_biased!()
- tokio::time::timeout()
- pin_project
- 08:56: Working on styling Gooey apps
- 11:56: Working on Anathema's viewport
- 17:56: Our philosophies on writing tests
- kempt
- cargo llvm-cov
- 36:57: Having strong opinions
- 44:05: How do we find and evaluate crates?
- fnv
- RandomState
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
58 min - Episode 5: Putting Lipstick on a Pig
Ecton and ToggleBit meet for the fifth episode of The Way of the Crab. They
discuss everything except their game project.- 00:25: What has Ecton been working on?
- OnceLock/OnceCell stabilized in Rust 1.70
- Gooey
- kempt (Ecton's library he released,
but failed to name on the podcast)- PartialOrd missing for String
- 03:54: What has ToggleBit been working on?
- Clippy
- ChillFish8
- 23:40: ModProg asks, "how much time did you waste due to me using your
libraries?"- leptos
- Rsn
- Ron
- 26:40: Opinions on updating minimum Rust versions on projects?
- 29:57: What do you do when you're stuck on a problem?
- 38:10: Looking into the standard library for fun
- 41:20: What are some of our personal rules for programming?
- 50:36: Our highlights from Rust
1.70 release notes- 54:30: ToggleBit helps a friend try Rust
- cargo watch
- 58:03: sbutcher1969
asks, "When you werefirst learning Rust, what was the hardest part for you, what did you strugglewith the most? And why?"We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
1 hr 7 min - Episode 4: Bunnies, Boxes, and Style
Ecton and ToggleBit meet for the fourth episode of The Way of the Crab.
In this episode they discuss:
- What they've been working on
- User interface styling
- Premature optimization
- Box vs String
- Will their game have questing in our game?
- Making a programmable game?
- Backwards compatibility
Here are links to various topics mentioned throughout the episode. The list is
organized by when it is first mentioned.- BonsaiDb
- Memento
- Gooey
- Binary Search
- PyO3
- Keep a Changelog
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
1 hr 1 min - Episode 3: The Pit of Stupid
Ecton and ToggleBit meet for the third episode of The Way of the Crab.
In this episode they discuss:
- What have they been working on?
- Premature allocation optimization
- Squashing Commits vs Keeping Commit History
- Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) vs Pure Rust
- Our game project
- Utilize generative AI?
- Character Progression
- How open will their design process be?
- "Finding the fun"
Here are links to various topics mentioned throughout the episode. The list is
organized by when it is first mentioned.- BonsaiDb
- BonsaiDb storage rewrite
- Rust's namespaced features, available in 1.60
- ToggleBit's Twitch Stream
- Why does std::env::args allocate?
- Anathema (ToggleBit's text-user
interface project)- Domain Specific Language (DSL)
- Gooey proof-of-concept
- quote
- Rust Analyzer Blog: IDEs and Macros
We welcome your feedback and questions and have set up these ways of reaching us:
- Email us at [email protected]
- Join our Discord community.
- Post on our GitHub Discussions
1 hr 1 min
About The Way of the Crab
From the publisher's feed
A podcast where two Rustaceans set out to make a game. In each episode, we talk about what we've been working on using the Rust programming language as well as other topics that have been on our mind…
or our listeners have asked about.